Slack-Current Firefox 3.0.4
 

Slackware-Current / fully updated with slackpkg
Logitech G5 mouse (9 button)

My xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Buttons" "10"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
EndSection

With Firefox 3.0.3 everything worked fine for me.
After using slackpkg to upgrade-all it upgraded me to Firefox 3.0.4.
After Firefox 3.0.4 was installed my mouse browser forward and back buttons quit working.
(Logitech G5 mouse)
The buttons on the browser itself still worked.
I still had those functions in Seamonkey and Opera.
So the problem was only in Firefox 3.0.4.
I then downloaded Firefox 3.0.4 from Mozilla and extracted it to:
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.4
and removed the Slack package for Firefox 3.0.4 with pkgtool.
Now everything works again.

I went through this 2 times just to be sure it wasent a fluke.

Q:
Is there a bug in the Slackware package for Firefox 3.0.4 that needs to be addressed?

EDIT:
The problem came back even with the Mozilla download after I rebooted.
So I installed 2.0.0.18 and that made everything work.
I guess The new Firefox just don't like my mouse.

using 3.0.4 here (on 12.1) with a G9 and no issues with fwd back etc.

Here is my mouse section.

Check with 'xev' to see what the buttons are mapped to. Mine are button6 and button7.

Yep, mine works perfect on 12.1 also with my xorg.conf.
But I'm guna try yours too just for kicks.
Right now I'm doing a hose & reload on that system because I've butchered it up quite a bit in the last week.

Thanks.

Please delete my post.

The probably is more than likely Firefox's problem. Slackware just repackages the official binaries.

I do remember reading the 2.x.x versions of firefox required the user to remap the mouse keys and that this was supposedly going to be fixed in 3.x.x.

Did you try not remapping the buttons?

Solved:
I did a hose & reload and updated to ff 3.0.4 and ff works perfect now with the stock xorg.conf.
Probably nothing wrong with ff in the first place.

I had used the xorg mouse setting that I have on 12.1 and I think I should have just left xorg.conf alone in Current..

There might have been some key binding remaps in 3.0.x. with 2.0.0.0.0.0.0.x I had to always modify the browser.xul package so I could have Ctrl-Q as my Exit keyboard shortcut. This key binding was not enabled in the previous version but is enabled by default now in 3.0.4.

Woodsman:
I sure do like your site.
It's been a big help to me as I blunder through my little learning curve.
Thanks!

I like your forum name. :D Thanks.