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I Built FinderBack: Back & Forward Navigation in Finder’s Right-Click Menu

I kept running into one small annoyance in macOS Finder: going Back or Forward meant moving the cursor back up to the toolbar every time.

So I built FinderBack, a small macOS utility that adds Back and Forward navigation directly to Finder’s right-click menu.

It’s intentionally simple:

  • Right-click anywhere in Finder
  • Choose Back or Forward
  • Keep navigating without reaching for the toolbar

The project is open source, and there’s also a ready-to-run build for people who just want to install it.

Demo + download:
https://finderbac.fdse064.workers.dev/

Source code:
https://github.com/adfd3ewdf3/FinderBack

It’s a tiny utility, but it solved an annoyance I had constantly. If you use Finder a lot, I’d be interested to hear whether this is useful for you too.

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