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

Akkana wrote:

> 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.

It's a good idea to link all the files, but it does not work. The reason is
that the firefox executable still seems to take the configuration from the
system directories.
The executable (/usr/bin/firefox which is linked from ~/bin/firefox) seems
to take the configuration from /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6/ and I don't know how
to tell it to take it from any other directory.

Achim