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Welcome to the tutorial guide. The guide will provide the user with guidance and instructions on how to activate side-mouse buttons in FireFox. If you would like to activate side-mouse-buttons in FireFox, then simply add two lines to xorg.conf. This will activate side-mouse-buttons in FireFox.

Please note that if you do not have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file then you need to create it by typing following command:
su -c ‘yum install -y system-config-display’
su -c ’system-config-display –reconfig’

You can backup the Xorg configuration file by typing following command:
su -c ‘cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak’

If you would like to modify the Xorg configuration file, the please type following command:
su -c ‘gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf’

If you have a Input Device section for your mouse, the please ensure that it looks like following below and if it doesn’t then please change it to this:

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option “CorePointer”
…
Option “Protocol” “ExplorerPS/2″
…
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “true”
Option “Buttons” “7″
Option “ButtonMapping” “1 2 3 6 7″
EndSection

If you do not have a Input Device section for the mouse, the please add the above section (less the “…” parts) to the end of the file, and change the ServerLayout section to reference it:
Section “ServerLayout”
… already existing entries …
InputDevice “Configured Mouse” “Pointer”
EndSection

Now, please reboot the computer or restart the X server (Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace) to see if your forward/back buttons work in FireFox. Remember that they will not work in Nautilus until imwheel dameon has been installed.

If you have followed the instructions and guidance as provided in this tutorial guide, then you will have successfully activated the side-mouse buttons in FireFox