[...] Nobody seems to have given any thought to this major problem, which basically means you can't share your cert and key databases between Firebird and Thunderbird if they are running at the same time.
But the best solution would probably be a separate process that will handle all the crypto/NSS requests for the running aplications.
It seems clear this is the most workable solution.
If needed, it could be done with a proxy without changing anything in the current interface.
Right, and must of the work has already been done, for profile sharing among separate processes. See bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135137 and its dependencies.
Was not the PSM intended to work that way initially ?
It was, but the cost of having a PSM process and talking to it was not worth it. I don't know if it's still possible to share a PSM process among several separate applications.
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