Mouse button functionality

I have a 5-button mouse, The leftmost button (under my thumb) sends Firefox 6.0 back a page. This is a problem when composing e-mail. I accidentally lose the entire work. Is there a way to disable this function? Is there a way to change what the mouse buttons do in Firefox?
Thanks in advance,
Andy [email protected]

my mouse has 3 buttons and 2 axis mouse wheel, but i use the evdev driver anyway, because it has lower latency. I may probably switch to evdev for the keyboard too. evdev is a driver for usb devices.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Get … ns_Working
Using evdev the wheel seems to work better.

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