How do I disable my mouse's “back” button for a single Firefox tab?

Question

Sometimes, accidentally hitting my back button can be a huge pain. For instance, on Mibbit.com, if I hit that button I will have to re-logon to IRC. Probably the easiest choice would be a Firefox extension so I can just click a button to clear the history for the current tab, but I haven't seen anything like this.

Answer 1

Im not sure if AutoHotKey has support for the back button on your mouse, but it can gobble up a mouse button press based on the text in the title bar of the active window.

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/_IfWinActive.htm

Answer 2

Try using the Firefox plug-in "Tab Mix Plus". It has the ability to configure how the tabs behave. This program also has the ability to open closed tabs which might also get you back into the website you inadvertently backed out of. It allows you to set the default tab behavior as well. This plug-in should do what you are looking to do.

Tab Mix Plus

Answer 3

Perhaps you can script something to do this:

How to Disable the Browser Back Button

Its quite simple to disable the back button functionality of a browser (this was tested on IE and Firefox). This causes every back to return with a forward. Works a treat ;o)

if (window.history) {
> window.history.forward(1); }

or

function noBack(){window.history.forward()}
noBack();
window.onload=noBack;
window.onpageshow=function(evt){if(evt.persisted)noBack()}
window.onunload=function(){void(0)}

Answer 4

Autohotkey is a Windows solution. I came to this webpage searching for a Unix solution to the same problem. Eventually I found this solution: installing xinput and putting

xinput set-button-map "Trackpad" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 0

into my ~/.xsession. This was the link that helped me.