290606 - additional mouse buttons not recognized

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151249

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

If you use a ‘more than two buttons’-mouse under OS X, the additional buttons do
not work in firefox. For example, you can't map the ‘middle mouse button’
(usualy button 3) to the ‘open in new tab’ functionality.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use a mouse with more than two buttons (one with a wheel-button?).
2. Do *not* use some aditional software to map mouse buttons to some keyboard
functions or such things.
3. try to assign the ‘middle mouse button click’ to ‘open link in new tab’ or so.

Actual Results:  
In the mentioned example: nothing happens if you click the ‘middle button’.

Expected Results:  
FF should act as expected (even if configured under ‘about:config’ – looks as
there is no other place to manage this).

I think, FF doesn't catch mouse actions at the right place. The second button
might be caught via the OS translation (mouse button 2 click -> [ctrl] click),
but no other button is seen.
Ok, this isn't recognized by many other software. But OS X does handle more than
two buttons – try Safari, try it within Exposé! The only problem for the user is
to identify ‘mouse button 5’ e.g.
Maybe you'll say ‘use the mouse software and map the buttons’. But I think,
that's no good idea: this will give us conflicts with diferent keybard shortcuts
within diferent applications.

BTW: some part of the keyboard-translations aren't done well too: the ‘switch
tabs’ function is still at [ctrl][Page Up] / [ctrl][Page Down] and not at
[Command][Page Up] and so on. (Hint: even if you use iBooks or PowerBooks: you
still can use a full Mac-keyboard!)

Comment 1

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151249 ***