Disable mouse hotkeys in Chrome

Does anyone know how I can get Chrome to stop using my mouse buttons as hotkeys for a Logitech MX518 gaming mouse?

I have the mouse driver and software suite (SetPoint) installed. Unfortunately, SetPoint does not provide per-application settings, so that route is not an option.

No matter what I do in SetPoint, Chrome captures my side mouse buttons and uses them as a forward/back hotkey. I want to turn this off because I use those buttons for my push-to-talk in Mumble/Ventrilo.

Any idea how I can do this?

edit: my set-point does not have a way to create per-application settings. enter image description here

John Ruiz

Posted 2011-06-14T00:38:47.100

Reputation: 195

Answers

The free X-Mouse Button Control may work as a replacement for SetPoint, and I did see threads suggesting it for the Logitech MX518 mouse.

X-Mouse Button Control lets you bind buttons to keyboard keys on a per-application basis and has many optional settings.

Although I don't own your mouse, I use X-Mouse Button Control as a replacement for IntelliPoint and do highly recommend it. It may be worth trying.

harrymc

Posted 2011-06-14T00:38:47.100

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The most recent version of Chrome seems to have broken this (Chrome 69). – Powerlord – 2018-09-21T06:18:58.020

@Powerlord: Strange, since this works on the operating-system level. – harrymc – 2018-09-21T08:04:12.810

@harrymc I think what actually happened is that Chrome somehow loaded before X-Mouse Button Control. – Powerlord – 2018-09-21T10:42:46.673

thanks for the suggestion; I will try it out. If it works, I'll accept your answer! – John Ruiz – 2012-04-01T22:06:35.943

I installed this application and was able to configure it exactly as I wanted it. Excellent answer! – John Ruiz – 2012-04-02T20:10:44.250

I could be mistaken, but setpoint DOES provide per-application setting...

set point image

You can consider, of course, Uberoptions to allow further customization..

bubu

Posted 2011-06-14T00:38:47.100

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Mine doesn't have that. I took a screen shot of my setpoint dialog, but I can't figure out how to add images to comments. – John Ruiz – 2011-06-23T19:00:32.310

1try installing uberoptions – bubu – 2011-06-23T21:18:19.727

I had this issue as well.

Within SetPoint:

Select the side button that you want to be PTT (mouse 4 in my case)
For the task select Other.
In the dialog that appears, choose the function "Generic Button".
Apply the changes and this will allow it to still work within Chrome as a back/forward button but also allows you to map it to PTT within Mumble.

Johan Lieu

Posted 2011-06-14T00:38:47.100

Reputation: 21

Johan, I do not want my side mouse button to work as back/forward hotkeys within Chrome. – John Ruiz – 2011-12-23T18:07:10.940

By now, there is no Google Chrome internal setting to control the mouse keys behavior. The only way that I found that will work for sure is a autohotkey script that catches the button events and ignores them.

Michael K

Posted 2011-06-14T00:38:47.100

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