742770 - On Mac OS X, the backward button on the mouse does not make firefox navigate to previous page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1615213

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Hong Xu]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Build ID: 20120312181643

Steps to reproduce:

Open a page. Click on a page to navigate to another page.

Then, press the "go backward" key on the mouse.


Actual results:

If the page is small enough that there is no scroll bar, nothing happens;
if the page is large enough that a scroll bar appear on the right or the bottom, a circle with several arrows appears, which allows me to use mouse to move the view of the current page.


Expected results:

Firefox should go backward to previous page.

Comment 1

[Stefan Weiss [:sir_none]]

Hello,

I just found your old bug report from 2012 and want to ask you if you can still reproduce this on an actual firefox version?
in the last 2 years the context menu was changed, so I was not able to reproduce this problem.

thank you for a short feedback and your help.

Comment 2

[Kyungjoon Lee]

Same results with Firefox 36, and Firefox 39 nightly.

Pressing button 4 or 5 will give same results as pressing the middle mouse button.

Comment 3

[Stefan Weiss [:sir_none]]

Closed, because of missing feedback -> not possible to reproduce an bug

please feel free to reopen this bug-report if you have additonal information on it.

Comment 4

[Hong Xu]

Sorry I no longer own such a mouse to test. Do you have another way to test it?

Comment 5

[Jeff]

This should be reopened. This is still a problem in Firefox 83 on Mac OS 10.15.7. I've used both logitech and razer mice. Clicking the back or forward button does the same thing as clicking the middle (mouse wheel) button instead of actually going back or forward.

Comment 6

[Kyungjoon Lee]

Still active for me with Firefox 84.0.1.

This recognizes button 4 and button 5 as such:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MouseEvent/buttons

This just returns 1 (auxiliary button, middle button) when it should return 3 (button 4) or 4 (button 5):
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MouseEvent/button

Comment 7

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 8

[ira.d.sanchez]

I have this problem on Firefox Developer Edition 85.0b4 (64-bit) as well. As OP stated, it's just on Mac (in my case, Catalina 10.15.7), no issues on Windows. Instead of prompting the back/forward actions in the browser, it prompts the scroll icon that you get from pressing a scroll-wheel on a mouse as stated by the OP. I've tried on several regular Firefox as well with no luck. I've tried with multiple mice with no luck. I've also manually tried updating the config file with no luck.

a user who's experienced this elsewhere:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2559907

Comment 9

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl]]

This is now being tracked in bug 1615213.