Web browsers store history about the sites you have visited in a window or tab to let you easily go back and forth, you can use the back button or use a shortcut key ^[1] Alt with either the right or left arrow key to navigate the history (learn more Alt, Shift, Ctrl shortcut keys ^[2]).

However IE8 ^[3] and Firefox ^[4] offer users with a arrow to view the history as a drop-down list, however the arrows are missing in both Google Chrome ^[5] and Opera ^[6].

However the missing arrow key for drop down navigation does not mean that the feature in itself is missing, to access the backward or forward history as a drop down list in Google Chrome and Opera click and hold on the forward or backward button instead of simply clicking on it.

Once you click and hold for a second you will see the history as a drop down list, you can then select which webpage you want to navigate too from the list.