Mouse back/forward buttons do not work in Safari?

[waziazi]

How come the back/forward buttons don't work in safari but works fine in chrome/firefox. I can't find any configuration options in safari to enable that.

 

[bogdanw]

Close Safari and try from Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitPreferences.backspaceKeyNavigationEnabled 1

discussed here https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-in-safari-12-and-above.2175062/post-32386740

You might have to give Full Disk Access to Terminal for the command to work.

 

[arinamichel911]

How come the back/forward buttons don't work in safari but works fine in chrome/firefox. I can't find any configuration options in safari to enable that.

Which version of Safari and macOS are you using? This might help narrow down the problem

 

[bsmr]

Close Safari and try from Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitPreferences.backspaceKeyNavigationEnabled 1

discussed here https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-in-safari-12-and-above.2175062/post-32386740

You might have to give Full Disk Access to Terminal for the command to work.

Does it work with macOS Tahoe?

 

[bogdanw]

Does it work with macOS Tahoe?

I've just tried and it works. You have to give Full Disk Access to Terminal.

 

[bsmr]

I've just tried and it works. You have to give Full Disk Access to Terminal.

I also tried it, but it doesn't work for me with Tahoe. Did you restart the machine?

 

[bogdanw]

I closed Safari, run the command and it worked. It persisted after rebooting.
Have you checked if the value was saved?
defaults read com.apple.Safari WebKitPreferences.backspaceKeyNavigationEnabled should return 1.

 

[bsmr]

I closed Safari, run the command and it worked. It persisted after rebooting.

Interesting. For me it simply doesn't work. Also tried to reboot and checked if it is installed and so on.

Using a MBP with Tahoe. Strange behavior.

 

[bogdanw]

You could try the other solution:

defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add Back "\U232b"

 

[bsmr]

Thanks. But this also does not work. Maybe because of German keyboard layout?

 

[bogdanw]

If you have macOS set in German, you have to use the corresponding word instead of "Back", as it appears in the History menu with the shortcut Command-ü. Based on https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/cpsh003/mac, I presume it's "Zurück":

defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add Zurück "\U232b"