Open BetterTouchTool app and it should prompt you to change a Security & Privacy settings to allow the app to work.

Just download and install the app and here’s what you need to do: There’s a app called BetterTouchTool that lets you customize and map both of these buttons to forward and back. So I did some googling and came across this article: Logitech Mouse: how can I use additional buttons? Interestingly enough, my Ubuntu Linux machines has them working by default, same as Windows.

Here’s a picture of my mouse with the buttons that under Windows, normally maps to forward and back in the web browser.īy default, OS X does not have such functionality. As much as I enjoy Apple’s trackpad, I still like to use the mouse for gaming and other things. These are mouse shortcut buttons found on many gaming mice.

But one thing that’s bugged me for a while was the lack of support for Logitech and other mice’s forward and back buttons. I’ve been using OS X as my main OS for almost five years now.

Logitech mouse mac back button