1645999 - Mousebutton 4 and 5 does not seem to work (are instead interpreted as mousebutton 3)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1615213

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[eirik]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0

Steps to reproduce:

• Install latest Firefox (77.0.1) on MacOS (Catalina 10.15.5)
• Navigate to any website and click mousebutton 4 or 5
• Buttons do not function as back/forward, but rather produce a scroll wheel like mousebutton 3
• Try to search for "mousebutton.4th.enabled" and "mousebutton.5th.enabled" in "about:config", but cannot find any such settings
• Try to add them manually and setting them to "true" -> no effect even after restarting Firefox

Expected results:

IMO mousebutton 4 and 5 should be enabled by default (functioning as back/forward). At the very least there should be settings to enable/disable them in "about:config" as some Google results suggest have existed before?

Comment 1

[eirik]

Someone gave me a tip about this: https://github.com/archagon/sensible-side-buttons

Installing that fixed it for me. Would be great if that wasn't necessary though...

Comment 2

[Clara Guerrero ( Need Info Brindusa Tot Please)]

Hi Eirik,

I will move this over to a component so developers can take a look over it and see if it's possible to add the settings to enable them. If is not the correct component please feel free to change it to an appropriate one.

Thanks for the report.

Best regards, Clara.

Comment 3

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Comment 4

[Nicholas Nethercote [inactive]]

This is not a libpref bug. Maybe "Widget: Cocoa" is a more appropriate component?