[Project_owners] Opening "Customize Toolbar" window

[Brian King]

Bartosz Piec wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How to open a "Customize Toolbar" window from my extension's preference 
> window? I've tried to execute the code from Firefox's browser.js file:
> 
> function BrowserCustomizeToolbar()
> {
>   // Disable the toolbar context menu items
>   var menubar = document.getElementById("main-menubar");
>   for (var i = 0; i < menubar.childNodes.length; ++i)
>     menubar.childNodes[i].setAttribute("disabled", true);
> 
>   var cmd = document.getElementById("cmd_CustomizeToolbars");
>   cmd.setAttribute("disabled", "true");
> 
>   window.openDialog("chrome://global/content/customizeToolbar.xul", 
> "CustomizeToolbar",
>                     "chrome,all,dependent", 
> document.getElementById("navigator-toolbox"));
> }
> 
> but the menubar variable is null.

Sounds like the wrong scope, i.e. Try using the window manager to get 
the browser window (lets call it win), then replace all occurrences of 
document.getElementById with win.document.getElementById.

However, the Customize dialog may not function properly if not opened by 
the main browser window.

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