How to enable mouse side buttons on a Vmware VM

Close the VM.
Edit the .vmx file and add this config:

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mouse.vusb.enable = "TRUE"
mouse.vusb.useBasicMouse = "FALSE"
usb.generic.allowHID = "TRUE"

Save the .vmx file.
Start the VM and you can see that you can use the mouse side buttons to move forward and backward on the web page.