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How to change 4th and 5th mouse's buttons?

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pbnnr
pbnnr

I want to change the behavior of my mouse extra buttons(e.g. 4th button mapped to reload the page)

I have already searched for answers, but the solutions I found told me to search for "mousebutton.4th.enabled" in "about:config", and it's not there

I want to change the behavior of my mouse extra buttons(e.g. 4th button mapped to reload the page) I have already searched for answers, but the solutions I found told me to search for "mousebutton.4th.enabled" in "about:config", and it's not there

Chosen solution

Would you take a look at this please :

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ManyButtonsMouseHowto

Any useful information there ?

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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I'm not sure Firefox is aware of extra mouse buttons, but often your mouse driver software lets to assign key combinations to those buttons (such as Ctrl+r or F5 to reload).

McCoy
McCoy

Those preferences are not on the "about:config" page when you're on Linux ......

See :

https://superuser.com/questions/1247367/how-to-disable-mouse-back-and-forward-shortcuts/1267965#1267965

McCoy
McCoy

Chosen Solution

Would you take a look at this please :

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ManyButtonsMouseHowto

Any useful information there ?

pbnnr
pbnnr Question owner

McCoy said

Would you take a look at this please : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ManyButtonsMouseHowto Any useful information there ?

Thank you, this actually solved it. It was a little troublesome to get imwheel working, but now everything works fine!!