Mouse buttons

Lakecottage · Post by **Lakecottage** » November 8th, 2002, 9:35 pm

I am new and ignorant and do not mean to insult. Please tell me (in simple language, if possible), how do I get my Intellimouse back and forward buttons (on the mouse itself) to work with this browser? Or, do I have to use the the "buttons" on the screen? Thanks for your help.

cb · Post by cb » November 8th, 2002, 10:21 pm

I think this issue was addressed on the old forums. Try searching them for the answer.

If I remember correctly, the gist was: program the back mouse button to be "backspace" as it does the same thing, and for forward you are out of luck (for now).

laszlo · Post by **laszlo** » November 8th, 2002, 11:10 pm

http://texturizer.net/phoenix/faq.html#4.5

Lakecottage · Post by **Lakecottage** » November 9th, 2002, 7:23 am

Thank you both. Back button is "fixed".

Doomsday · Post by **Doomsday** » November 9th, 2002, 10:05 am

For forward it's : shift+backspace or alt+right arrow but I don't know if it let's you program it in the intellimouse software since I don't have it.

DeepFreeze3 · Post by **DeepFreeze3** » November 10th, 2002, 5:47 am

Has anybody tried updating the Intellimouse software? I did. It wasn't pretty. I kept getting this weird error message saying that the installer program couldn't read a file in my Temp folder, then the program shut down. I ended up having to get rid of the update & reinstall my previous Intellimouse software to get everything working right again.

This problem doesn't happen with my Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro. It's Back & Forward hot keys work just fine. I either use those, or the virtual buttons Netscape 7.0 has.

ksheka · Post by **ksheka** » November 10th, 2002, 7:24 am

DeepFreeze3 wrote:Has anybody tried updating the Intellimouse software? I did. It wasn't pretty. I kept getting this weird error message saying that the installer program couldn't read a file in my Temp folder, then the program shut down. I ended up having to get rid of the update & reinstall my previous Intellimouse software to get everything working right again.

Where can you pick up the intellimouse software? I have WinXP, but bought the mouse well before then. Can I make the extra buttons usable in other programs (ie: quake 2 :-)

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DeepFreeze3 · Post by **DeepFreeze3** » November 10th, 2002, 12:20 pm

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouse/default.asp