Back button on mouse????

Those two keys can be pressed with one hand, so it's not any great feat to take one hand off the mouse to do it.

What is so hard about putting a back or forward button on a mouse?

What's so hard about realizing this isn't Windoze?

Mulder

So how do you do this with the logitech?

Unfortunately, I don't know, since I don't have one or even the drivers for it. Assuming you don't have the Mac OS X drivers installed, you can download them here. the instructions for assigning those shortcuts to the mouse (if it allows that) should be in that package.

Mulder

Sorry, but you can't do that. You can navigate forward and back through pages you've already visited in a window or tab by using the Command-[ (back) and Command-] (forward) keyboard shortcuts.

Mulder

If you want to mess with it, you could assign your own keyboard shortcut to a mouse button via System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts. You would need to scroll to the bottom of that window, click on the "+" sign to add an item, and select Safari from the Application popdown menu. Enter a name for the menu command you're entering (Back Button or something like that), then enter the keyboard shortcut for that, which is Command-[ (without the "-" character.

Rinse and repeat for the Forward button and it's shortcut, Command-]; again, without the "-" character.

Mulder

The shortcuts you entered should automatically work with the mouse, though you may have to restart Safari and/or your Mac to make them take effect. It's also possible that they won't work with your particular mouse or that there is some setting for it you need to adjust or enable.

Mulder

Since I don't have a Mighty Mouse to test with and I thought you were using the Logitech mouse you referred to in your original post, I don't think this will work for you without the aid of some additional software, namely SteerMouse.

This $20 piece of software enables additional options to configure the Mighty Mouse, which Apple does not include in their software for it. There is a 30 day free trial, so you might as well give it a shot and see if you like it. And you can remove those shortcuts you created earlier in the Keyboard & Mouse section of System Preferences by selecting them and clicking on the "-" symbol for each.

Mulder

Obviously no one here has ever used a PC with this feature

We would rather eat razor-blades!

It sure does beat having to use both hands to operate a simple feature

You need two hands to point the mouse at a button on the toolbar??

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Hi, I have to agree with theuser869 here, even though his tone is abrasive. It /is/ a big deal taking your hand off the mouse and going to the keyboard. And what's up with the religion thing? Apple has problems. Windows has problems. And, oh yes, my new mac did crash a couple days after I turned it on, which was the main reason I switched from Windows. Computers are computers, what's with the religious brainwashing thing?

Anyway, this is a simple and desirable feature, and should be a default.

I have been using Macs since 2002 and the side back/forward buttons on the Microsoft wireless mice always worked on Safari & Firefox until I installed some updates including Security Update 2008-007 on my PM running Leopard. I could find no way to fix the problem, so thanks to Time Machine I rolled everything back to before the upgrade and regained the back/forward functionality.
Sadly the so called updates often remove more useful features than they add or fix, & I don't know how to remove them once they're installed, other than time machine. "If it isn't broken, don't fix it" and you'll avoid the tears.