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#1 2008-08-31 00:21:29

colbert
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Registered: 2007-12-16
Posts: 809

Side mouse buttons don't go forward/back in Firefox

This has been a long time issue that I kind of ignored by using Mouse Gestures add-on, but I'd like to resolve it if possible. In Opera my side buttons on the mouse go forward/backward just fine. They used to work in Firefox but haven't since Firefox 3 update. Here's the mouse section of my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Again, it works in Opera but not in FF (and I use and greatly prefer FF).

TIA smile

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#2 2008-08-31 15:30:18

Barghest
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From: Hanau/Germany
Registered: 2008-01-03
Posts: 563

Re: Side mouse buttons don't go forward/back in Firefox

From the firefox wiki:

In Firefox 3 on Linux, the mouse button assignments for Back and Forward have changed. Previous versions of Firefox used buttons 6 and 7 for Back and Forward, respectively. Firefox 3 uses buttons 8 and 9. You can configure Firefox to use 6 and 7 by editing some hidden preferences.

1. In the Location bar, type about:config, and press Enter.
2. In the Filter: box, type mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.
3. Double-click on mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action, set the value to 2, and click OK.
4. Double-click on mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines, set the value to -1, and click OK.
5. Double-click on mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines, which should set the value to false.

You can now close the about:config page.

Barghest

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#3 2008-08-31 17:59:22

colbert
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Registered: 2007-12-16
Posts: 809

Re: Side mouse buttons don't go forward/back in Firefox

Wow, thanks SO much Barghest! Silly me for not finding that on the wiki, oy vey. It works like a charm! smile

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