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Work · June 6, 2018

SensibleSideButtons

Use your back/forward mouse buttons for navigation in macOS.

SensibleSideButtons launched on June 6, 2018 with 74 votes, #576 of 2,653 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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What it does

SensibleSideButtons is a menu bar app that lets you use your third-party mouse's side buttons for navigation across all of macOS, including many places where other apps won't let you (such as Xcode). Similar behavior to Windows. The app is free to use and open source.

Fix the side buttons on your third-party mice in macOS.

Actually functional side navigation buttons on your third-party mice in macOS. Want to help out development with minimal effort? Simply click this Amazon affiliate link and make any purchase! If you use third-party mice with your Mac, you've surely noticed just how useless the side buttons are. By default, they act as a sort of crippled middle click, consigned to opening new links out from under you when you least expect it. Compare to Windows, where those same buttons allow you to fluidly navigate back and forward in practically any window with a history. Once you've gotten used to this feature, it's hard to get by without it. Here's a demo of how the side buttons work in macOS by default.…from sensible-side-buttons.archagon.net

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