175494 - Extra Navigation buttons on mouse do not work with browser

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 30431

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[bnrlee13]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

Normally, the navigation buttons on my mouse (A4Tech's Optical WOP-35) act as 
forward and backward (ie alt+right arrow or alt+left arrow) keys, but they do 
not work with Mozilla.  I changed the function of the keys to right arrow/left 
arrow and when coupled with me pressing alt on the keyboard, this does work.  
However, simply functioning as forward/backward keys, the browser does not 
respond.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open web browser & load homepage
2. Load new page from bookmarks or enter an address
3. Try to use alternate keys on mouse to browse forward or backward

Actual Results:  
Absolutely nothing happens when you do the above.  The browser does not 
respond.  I can, as mentioned above, alter the key's functions to just 
right/left arrow keys and then press alt on the keyboard which does work.  
Furthermore, I tried changing the middle button function to forward (or 
backward) and this DOES work.  Somehow Mozilla does not respond to the 
functions forward/backward being assigned to the mouse buttons 4&5.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have gone back to the homepage when the back button was 
pressed.  Furthermore, the forward button could then be used to advance to to 
the page you entered.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30431 ***

Comment 2

[Trix Supremo]

verified dupe.