Disabling mouse side buttons?

[Ichinisan]

The OP is completely right, I just found this thread when I lost 2 hours work in OpenAir by accidently clicking that tiny button on the Dell mouse in the office (while I use another mouse normally).

It is not a problem of mice or mice drivers, but a problem of the browser.
Clicking on the back button in the browser should be the only way to trigger "back" - and possibly loose data. So the default behaviour should be not the read any other input from any device.

Mozilla is STUPID by letting a mouse click destroy the users work in this way.
So we need a solution in Firefox, and not by installing more software, or destroying hardware (although I'd currently feel good to do that).

A more elegant solution:
Browsers should respond to the back/forward mouse buttons, but they should save the state of the page and not try to re-load anything or run any JavaScript initialization.

This has irritated me for a LONG time.

 

[CZroe]

A more elegant solution:
Browsers should respond to the back/forward mouse buttons, but they should save the state of the page and not try to re-load anything or run any JavaScript initialization.

This has irritated me for a LONG time.

EVEN better would be an option to treat ANY form data like an unsaved document in a dedicated application. If you attempt to leave the page without submitting, it prompts you with an "are you sure?" confirmation dialog. Because it often does not submit successfully, there should be an user option even when it can't tell if the navigation action included a submission so that extra careful users can enable it. SO much work is done on the Internet these days that it's absolutely negligent to not consider data in an online form every bit as carefully as unsaved data in a word processor.

 

[Vonchor]

I dunno about cut drivers. I have the full package on my main system, and no problems. Maybe poke around in Windows. I don't think you can change them there, but it doesn't hurt to look.

I am a left handed and the mouse buttons on the left side of my Logitech M545 constantly annoy me. After reading these posts I opened the battery door removed one screw giggled, the top part pulling gently to the front and it opened quite easily. One glance revealed a small plug W/ 2 wires from the switches. Pulled out the plug put the mouse together, PRESTO left side switches have no effect.