Bring back the back button!

One of the features I loved about Zotero was the back button, which would take you back to your previous spot in a document. A simple enough thing, but hugely convenient when trying to navigate around long papers. The back button was also present in the Library pane, so you could quickly go back to whatever collection you were just looking at without having to find it again.

The new update has completely removed the back button from My Library, and in the PDF reader there is this button:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u19175514/0m7gqgferrvzu9h4w9k6.png
Which looks more like an "undo," but I can't tell what it's supposed to be as it doesn't work for me at all.

Please, I'm so sad. I rely on Zotero, and having to scroll 10 pages to look at a figure and then scroll back to where I was reading is incredibly frustrating.
(would love a 'forward' button too, while we're at it...)

[Zotero 10.0.3, Windows 11]
  • There's never been a back button in the library pane, and the back button in the reader has only ever taken you back after following an intra-document link (embedded or one of the reader's automatic links).

    If you had a back button in the library, you were using a plugin. A library back button has been a fairly common request over the years, though, and it's something we might add.

    A plugin might have also changed the behavior of the reader back button to work after scrolling. We could also do that — it would just require figuring out the precise desired behavior (e.g., how long you have to stop on a page before it counts as a history entry).
  • Huh. I could have sworn...guess I either had a plugin I didn't know about, or I was hallucinating. Thanks for your time.
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