Side buttons of mighty mouse

I was just wondering if anyone knew if there was a script for making the side buttons on the mouse the foward and back buttons when youre browsing the web.

lol if only it was that easy, unfortunately they don't offer those commands unless I'm totally missing something. I found a program called SteerMouse that lets you but you eventually have to buy it.

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    I think I'm having a similar problem. Lately, my side buttons have been activating seemingly on their own. I hear multiple clicking sounds. I know I can turn off the button, but I use USB Overdrive to activate page back in browsers and the Finder, so I can be surfing and be brought back several pages at once. Very irritating. It doesn't seem to be consistent either. I bought my latest iMac in June, so I the warranty should be in place, but I'm an hour and half from the nearest Apple store, making it somewhat inconvenient to have the mouse looked at.
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    Those actions are user defined in System Preferences>mouse. The definition for the center ball may have gone back to the defaults. Check there and redefine if necessary. Mine is currently set for Expose.. but it's easy to change. Just use the drop down box and pick "other". Then the applications folder on the left and Mail in the resulting list.
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    i tried dozens of times... i can't use the right click. it acts as a primary button even though i set it to secondary...
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    I'm not sure where I should post this but I guess I'll start here. Does anyone know or know how to write a script so I can make the side button of the mouse go back a page while using Safari?

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    font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
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    width: 720px;
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  • Mighty Mouse - Can I go backwards and forwards in Safari

    I have a wireless mighty mouse that I use along with my MacBook Pro. At work I have a PC and a wireless optical mouse that allows me to move back and forth through web pages by pressing a separate key on the mouse. Is there a way to add a forward/back button to Mighty Mouse's functionality?
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    I don't have a mouse so I can't tell you, sorry.
    Michael G

  • Mighty Mouse side buttons going haywire

    My wired MM just recently lost complete bodily function of its side buttons. Practically any movement of the mouse (especially touching it around the area of the right side button) will send it in a frenzy. I can hear the little click too, as if I were pushing the buttons super fast. Because I have my side buttons set to "show all windows" it pretty much renders the mouse useless. I can't work with Expose flipping it's lid, obviously. Has anyone else encountered this? Is it just a matter of cleaning out something inside?

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    Okay I just figured it out like 2 minutes after I made the post! Hopefully this will help others if they are looking to do the same thing:
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  • Disable side mighty mouse button in Windows XP

    I have a mighty mouse that I use in bootcamp and the side mouse buttons when hit go to the default command "back in browser." I often hit the buttons accidentally only to find myself "hitting the back button" in firefox accidentally. Is there a way to disable the side mouse buttons when using windows xp bootcamp?

    Hi,
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  • Mighty mouse side buttons going

    I have the original wired mighty mouse (the one that released on August 2, 2005). I keep having the same problem with it. The side buttons randomly click; I need almost no pressure on them to make them do that. When I'm just normally using the mouse, expose activates, it's very annoying.
    Why does this happen? How can I fix this? Is it fixed already (the latest update, look on wikipedia)?

    sb.net,
    The Apple mighty mouse has always been a OS 10.4.x and higher specifications mouse.
    You might have success with usb overdrive: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7115/usb-overdrive-x
    I didn't bother with such things though. I got the Logitech LX3 and it comes with
    a software installer for all the neat bells and whistles that I don't even use the half of. But anyhoo...
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    L+

  • Mighty mouse side buttons

    I use a wired mighty mouse with my mac. I use the side buttons for expose in mac. But in windows I could not find any option to customize the usage of the side buttons. Thus they are by default set to back function. Its very annoying sometimes as I may click them accidently and thus the webpage I am viewing changes to previous page. Its very annoying is there any option to avoid this?

    Before messing with the mouse, please find the Caps Lock key on your keyboard and turn it off
    The mighty mouse side buttons can be configured to do ONE thing only as far as I know - they both operate as a single button. In the mouse configuration tab of System Preferences you can set the buttons to a pre-specified option or you can tie it to running an AppleScript. Perhaps using an AppleScript you can figure out how to make this work.

  • Mighty Mouse side button gives 'new mail' sound

    I have recently noticed a strange phenomenon with the mighty mouse on my iMac :-
    Whenever I squeeze the side buttons in either Mail or Adobe Reader it gives the (submarine) 'new mail' sound. Other applications are fine. I am using Steermouse, and the side buttons are configured to give the 'page back' command in my browser, which works correctly. But I'm sure that the strange sound problem didn't used to occur.
    Any ideas what's going on ?
    Cheers,
    Chris.

    It's because there is nothing to go back to, so it plays the "alert/error" sound.
    Just like it would if you were to hit the shortcut key....

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