Treat side mouse buttons as back and forwards

seabass

Currently the side mouse buttons act like the middle mouse button. They are treated like forward and back in Chrome and Firefox. I think this configuration is most logical. However, Safari has the same behavior as Orion.

Similar to this bug in Firefox that was fixed a few months ago:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1615213

Fortrikka

Alternatively for now you can use SideButtons on github, which is a light application which simply makes them do three-swipe gestures backwards and forwards logically, so that in most applications it will go backwards and forwards. Which are the mouse 4 and mouse 5 buttons respectively.

b3noit

Fortrikka Thanks for the suggestion

Fortrikka

b3noit As a bonus, it works on Finder as well.
Or you can use a remapping applicatoin to rebind them to ⌘[, or ⌘].

renesansz

I also support this suggestion to be implemented natively in the browser. Though I also appreciate the suggestion from @Fortrikka as alternative, but moving forward in the future most users will also have the same expectation with the mouse forward/back buttons to work as-is.