Logitech MX 1000 Laser Cordless Mouse

My father-in-law gave me one of these Logitech MX 1000 Laser Cordless Mouse for Christmas. It was actually on the top of my Christmas list, but somehow my wife missed it. Luckily, my father-in-law heard me complain about my trackball dying on me an picked me up the MX 1000. I have only used it for a day so writing this now may be somewhat premature. Here is what I think so far:

• It is spectacularly precise and works exceptionally well on any surface, even reflective ones. Kudos on this front.
• The shape of the mouse is very nice, but I have big hands and I wish it were a bit bigger. However, I realize it is probably perfect for the majority of the market.
• The placement of the TEN buttons are great, except it seems to me that the forward and back buttons could be a bit more forward (this could be due to my big hands though).
• I love the TEN buttons, BUT — and this is a big but — why the hell can’t you modify the settings for the left and right scroll mouse buttons in the Setpoint control panel? You can set all the buttons, but these two? What the hell? Those are the two I immediately attempted to modify.
• For my final complaint. And this one is a doozy. I cannot get the damn back/forward buttons to work in Firefox! What a disappointment! Moreover, I sure wish someone would write a Firefox plug-in so that I could assign buttons to functions of Firefox. For example, open tab — close tab, etc.

Overall Rating: 8.5/10

I was complaining about the lack of functionality in FireFox, but I just discovered the fix in Logitech’s extensive online forums:

You have to set the mouse buttons to generic buttons in order for them to work in [some] applications.

Open the Logitech software setpoint/mouseware:
go to the mouse button assignments for the button you want;
on the select task hit other
next to to it there is a set function button
select generic button
hit apply

Now the mouse will send regular [Win] impulses.

Now that I have that issue resolved I increased the overal rating. It would have to be bluetooth and more mobile for it to get a 10/10.