Open Bug 1949133 Opened 1 month ago Updated 1 month ago

Support for additional mouse buttons (back, forward, etc) in KASM VNC

Categories

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

Firefox 137
defect

Tracking

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UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: lolxdner, Unassigned, NeedInfo)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Open KASM (v1.14.0.32d10f) on Firefox
Open any workspace browser (firefox / chrome / brave / Ubuntu OS desktop)
use additional mouse buttons (back, forward, etc) in KASM VNC

Actual results:

use mouse buttons (back, forward) results in the current page going back or forward instead of the page in the KASM-Session. (works on chrome)

Expected results:

the page in the kasm session should react to the additional mouse buttons (back, forward, etc) fiunctions instead of the local browser.

Component: Untriaged → DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling
Product: Firefox → Core

It seems that there's a demo instance at https://www.kasmweb.com/kasmvnc

Allowing a Web page to override this mouse functionality has its own set of problems, but since many mice don't have these buttons, we can't rely on these mouse buttons for allowing users to escape traps.

smaug, do you know how intentional the reported behavior is. (I don't have a mouse like this to test with.)

Flags: needinfo?(smaug)
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