Re: Firefox: How to make Shift-Mouse-Button = Save Link As ... ?

Peter Weilbacher writes:
> Achim Schaefer wrote:
> 
> > I am only a normal user. I cannot change the browser.jar file.
> > 
> > Do I have any chance to make the changes work as non-root user?
> > Can I make the changes somewhere inside my ~.mozilla directory?
> 
> Probably not but you could install FF into ~/firefox and make the
> changes there.

You wouldn't even have to run the installer or use up a lot of
additional disk space. Just make a directory for your local firefox,
make symbolic links (or "shortcuts" or whatever your OS of choice
calls them) to each of the files/directories in the system-installed
firefox, except browser.jar (that means you'll have to make a
directory for chrome too). Then put your own edited browser.jar
into the directory. Voila! Your own customized firefox.

In other words, on Unix (I haven't tested these steps, but something
like this ought to work):

mkdir ~/myfox
mkdir ~/myfox/chrome
ln -s /usr/local/firefox/* ~/myfox
  (or wherever the system firefox is.
   Ignore any warning that chrome already exists.)
ln -s /usr/local/firefox/chrome/* ~/myfox/chrome
rm ~/myfox/chrome/browser.jar
cp /path/to/my/new/browser.jar ~/myfox/chrome/browser.jar

Then run ~/myfox/firefox instead of the system firefox.

	...Akkana