308044 - Intellimouse close and Intellitype close button assignment no longer work

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Jon Suen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

Assigning a button to close the current window on MS Intellipoint (tested on
5.30.606) or MS Intellitype (5.00.174) no longer works. It worked through
Firefox 1.0.6.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Assign a button to "close" in Intellimouse or Intellitype
2. Press button

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Window closes, as if control-W was pressed.

Comment 1

[atp1313]

Also noticed this issue when I installed Firefox v1.6 on 12-02-05.  My version of Intellimouse is Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 (Version 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158), running on Dell Dimension 4600 with WinXP Pro SP2.  

Previous versions of Firefox (1.0x) allowed "CLOSE" to be assigned to scroll wheel/button.  Version 1.6 does not appear to allow this.  All other assignable functions for the same wheel/button seem to work just fine.  Assigning "CLOSE" to any other button has the same effect of not working.

Would be great if this could be reinstituted for new version(s) of Firefox.

Comment 2

[atp1313]

WORK-AROUND FOUND!!

Slight satisfaction...noticed that Intellimouse includes an option for KEYSTROKE assignment.  I was able to assign ALT+F4 to the mouse wheel and now have identical functionality as to what I had before for CLOSE.  Hope this work-around helps others...

Comment 3

[solragegg]

(In reply to comment #2)
> WORK-AROUND FOUND!!
> 
> Slight satisfaction...noticed that Intellimouse includes an option for
> KEYSTROKE assignment.  I was able to assign ALT+F4 to the mouse wheel and now
> have identical functionality as to what I had before for CLOSE.  Hope this
> work-around helps others...
> 

How did you assign a keystroke to the mousew heel? I'm don't see where I'm able to do this on mine. Do I need a new version of the mouse software? Mine just has a pulldown menu to select from...

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

  Jon Suen  does this work for you now?

Comment 5

[Jon Suen]

Original bug still exists with IntelliPoint 6.30.191.0, Vista x64, Firefox 3.0.10.

Comment 6

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported on Firefox 2.x or older, which is no longer supported and will not be receiving any more updates. I strongly suggest that you update to Firefox 3.6.3 or later, update your plugins (flash, adobe, etc.), and retest in a new profile. If you still see the issue with the updated Firefox, please post here. Otherwise, please close as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
http://www.mozilla.com
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+mode

Comment 7

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.x or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.