Disable Firefox Forward/Back key mappings for Mouse4 and Mouse5 (wayland)

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I am on Fedora running GNOME 41 on Wayland. I want to disable Mouse4/Mouse5(BTN_SIDE and BTN_EXTRA) button mapping which by default executes page back and page forward action on browsers.

I cannot use xinput to do this as it will do it only for XWayland applications and Firefox/Chrome run in native Wayland mode.

Any ideas?

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Hi, I search on internet some said that mousebutton config in Firefox Linux about:config are not available, but when I tried, it’s actually available. May be you want to try about:config on Firefox and search for mousebutton.

For Chromium base browser, for now I’m still can’t find any information about it even in their docs.

Update:

Btw there an app name input-mapper. Maybe you want give it a try. Bellow are on how to install it on Fedora Linux:

sudo dnf install python3-devel python3-pydbus python3-evdev gtksourceview4
git clone https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper.git
cd input-remapper
sudo python3 setup.py install
sudo systemctl enable input-remapper
sudo systemctl start input-remapper

Then open the app from the app list. Let me know if you unable (failed) to build and install it.

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Hello there!

So many thank you for “how to” install of input-mapper!

I have just install Fedora, and it’s a new world on “how to” for me,
since I am use to use EndeavourOS (Arch), and I must say, so far,
I like what i see! - Fedora feels away faster some how…