Universal Back Button

Universal Back Button 1.0.1

Back to where you were.

What is Universal Back Button?

Universal Back Button (UBB) is a simple app that implements a back button that in principle "works everywhere." The idea came from Oliver Boermans, in a blog post titled "The universal back button," in response to Brent Simmons' post on "Apps that work together." (See where I got the name?) The idea is to provide a back button that takes you back to the task you were working on, before you opened a file, clicked a link, or similar.

Requirements

Universal Back Button requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later (at least for now). In order to use it, you must first double-click the UBB item that appears in your menubar when you launch the application; then select Toggle Universal Back Button, let UBB do its thing and finally log out and back in again. Then relaunch UBB and you're all set. Clicking the UBB menu item once will now take you back to the application you last used to open a link, a file or similar.

Screenshots

Not much to show, but here's a screenshot of the splash screen and the UBB menu (click for larger version):