This is still an issue in edgy. The keys should really be bound to those keysyms and firefox can be easily made to react to them (see http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_get_special_keys_to_work#Firefox ).
I don't know which package to add to the affected packages for the keysyms bindings... ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- "Back" and "Forward" buttons should work out of the box in Firefox https://launchpad.net/bugs/24582 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs