diff --git a/bin/installDeps.sh b/bin/installDeps.sh
index b72d8a370..a8bfd5fcd 100755
--- a/bin/installDeps.sh
+++ b/bin/installDeps.sh
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ rm -f var/minified*
 
 echo "ensure custom css/js files are created..."
 
-for f in "index" "pad" "timeslider" "inner"
+for f in "index" "pad" "timeslider" "inner" "outer"
 do
   if [ ! -f "static/custom/$f.js" ]; then
     cp -v "static/custom/js.template" "static/custom/$f.js" || exit 1
diff --git a/static/js/ace.js b/static/js/ace.js
index d2fcfd10c..a77906024 100644
--- a/static/js/ace.js
+++ b/static/js/ace.js
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ function Ace2Editor()
 
       // bizarrely, in FF2, a file with no "external" dependencies won't finish loading properly
       // (throbs busy while typing)
-      outerHTML.push('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="data:text/css,"/>', '\x3cscript>\n', outerScript.replace(/<\//g, '<\\/'), '\n\x3c/script>', '</head><body id="outerdocbody"><div id="sidediv"><!-- --></div><div id="linemetricsdiv">x</div><div id="overlaysdiv"><!-- --></div></body></html>');
+      outerHTML.push('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="data:text/css,"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/custom/outer.css"/>', '\x3cscript>\n', outerScript.replace(/<\//g, '<\\/'), '\n\x3c/script>', '</head><body id="outerdocbody"><div id="sidediv"><!-- --></div><div id="linemetricsdiv">x</div><div id="overlaysdiv"><!-- --></div></body><script type="text/javascript" src="/static/custom/outer.js"></script></html>');
 
       var outerFrame = document.createElement("IFRAME");
       outerFrame.frameBorder = 0; // for IE
