292988 - "back" and "forward" buttons inoperative

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jean-Pierre TAILLARD]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; fr-FR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; fr-FR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

Hello,
Cannot operate "back" and "forward" buttons on my Macally qball.
No problems at all with other browsers (I.E. / Safari).
Nobody here has been able to give me a hint as to what there is to do to regain
this function. It's annoying to have to go to the "back" arrow avery time you
want to see a previous page...
Many thanks .
Regards.
JP (Montauban. FRANCE)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.lauch Mozilla
2.go to any site on its page 2
3.try to get back to page 1 using the "back" button of the qball : it's inoperative

Actual Results:  
I got tired as it was the umpteeth time that Id done it and revsered to Safari...

Expected Results:  
brought me back to page 1

no crasg involved

Comment 1

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Could you try and reproduce this on a newer Firefox (1.0.3)?

Comment 2

[Frederic Bezies]

I will write in both english and french.

1) Upgrade to firefox 1.0.3
2) Kick every 3rd party theme and any extensions

Also, which version of OS-X are you running ?

French version :

1) Mettre à jour vers Firefox 1.0.3
2) Virer les extensions installées et les thèmes non officiels.

De plus, quelle version d'OX-X est utilisée ?

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

Well ...

Do the standard keyboard shortcuts still work for you?

Does the qball map its buttons to arrow/cursor keys, if so do they work in other
programs as expected?

What about arrow/cursor keys in Firefox?

Does the qball documentation imply that you need to configure the buttons
to work with some software, if so you might want to configure the qball's
back and forward buttons to cmd-{ and cmd-}; though there are other, and
perhaps better possibilities

Comment 4

[ari.hannula]

I've noticed too that Back and Forward keyboard shortcuts don't always work
properly on Mac.

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

The reporter never reported back. Resolving this bug as INCOMPLETE.