back button on mouse

adacom

normal mouse buttons work but back and forward buttons or anything thats programmable does not work

found a few old posts that says this is a problem with the interface but can find so solutions or thoughts on getting them working

is it being worked on - if so its taking a while as posts go back a few years or is it just as it is

Pathduck

@adacom My back/forward buttons work fine, also on my Logitech wireless who is "programmable" by driver.

is it being worked on

It's not being worked on unless someone has made a reproducible bug report. Did you find any in those old posts?

pauloaguia

My Microsoft mouse's back and forward buttons are working fine as well.

@adacom Can you share your environment settings? Also, is Vivaldi the only application where you're experiencing this problem, or do you have it in others as well? Finally, did you try it from a guest window / clean profile to make sure it's not something related to your particular Vivaldi configuration?

DoctorG

With my Logitech M705 the forward/back buttons at the side work nice with 4.1.2369.16 Win 10 x64 21H1.

adacom

thanks all - i will have to do more testing - i only get the problem on Vivaldi - different Microsoft mice on different laptops running windows 10 pro

laptops are Dell i5 and i7 both with 16gig memory

DoctorG

@adacom said in back button on mouse:

i only get the problem on Vivaldi - different Microsoft mice

Any special mouse software or changed mouse button settings?

adacom

it only has one side button which is not seen by windows 10 - there are drivers that dont help so i use custom software to program the side button - x-mouse button control - that then allows the side button to work on every program bar Vivaldi

i had searched and found old posts that said there was a problem in Vivaldi so assumed that was the problem - will now look deeper as it seems the problem lies elsewhere - the mice are not new but the fact they can be programmed for anything other than Vivaldi is odd

Pathduck

@adacom You have tested in other browsers?

And in a clean Vivaldi profile?

adacom

@pathduck - it works in other browsers as it does with other programs - but no i have not tested it in a clean install of Vivaldi - as said i found comment that there is/was a problem in vivaldi so looked no further - my mistake that i will now look deeper at

WildEnte

@adacom said in back button on mouse:

o i use custom software to program the side button - x-mouse button control - that then allows the side button to work on every program bar Vivaldi

I had a problem of X Mouse Button Control interfering with Vivaldi, which I could solve (after asking in the XMBC forum) by changing an XMBC setting

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/59188/tab-cycler-with-right-mouse-button-wheel-not-working/7?_=1629482445116