Re: Replacing XUL file within comm.jar

Will Levine spoke thusly:
> Chris I wrote:
> 
>>Many Netscape 7.1 users have complained about "Open link in new window"
>>being before "Open link in new tab" in the link context menu. This can
>>be changed via editing the file
>>\content\communicator\contentAreaContextOverlay.xul in comm.jar.
>>
>>I would like to make an XPI that will replace that file with the new
>>one. There was nothing added to the file, nothing subtracted. I just
>>switched the order of those two entries.
>>
>>How should I go about this? Is it possible to replace a file within
>>comm.jar via XPI? Can I create a separate JAR file that will override
>>that one overlay file? I definitely want to install it
>>'installation-wide' rather than per profile.
> 
> I think the preferred way to do this would be to use JavaScript to move
> the elements around instead of replacing whole files.  Maybe something
> like (I haven't tested this)
> 
> newwindow = document.getElementById("context-openlink");
> newtab = document.getElementById("context-openlinkintab");
> 
> document.documentElement.insertBefore("newtab", "newwindow");

Would this be added to the install.js, or as a separate js file?
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