On 7/6/05, D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 08:40 -0700, Scott Baker wrote: > > Looks like Firefox is gearing up to store some of its information in > > SQLite? Does anyone know anything more about this? > > > > http://gemal.dk/blog/2005/07/06/mozilla_firefox_bookmarks_in_for_a_rewrite/ > > > > I've been hearing of this for some time but I know no details. > > The copy of Firefox I use (version 1.0 that comes with > SuSE 9.2) stores all its configuration information and > cache in a bunch of files under ~/.mozilla/firefox. > If I try to launch two versions of firefox as the same user > but on separate displays (for example one on the console and > another on a remove X terminal or on an Xvnc server) the > second one has problems because the two instances cannot > share configuration files without risking collisions. And > if I power-off without a clean shutdown, lock files persist > which I have to clean up manually. > > Moving configuration information into an SQLite database > will resolve these issues, I hope. Because SQLite transactions > are isolated, multiple instances of Firefox will be able to > share the same configuration. And because SQLite transactions > are atomic, a power-off in the middle of a transaction will > cause the transaction to roll back automatically. > > I *hope* that is what the SQLite integration with firefox > will accomplish. But again, I don't really know. > -- > D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Mozilla currently stores its information (bookmarks, history in firefox and the mail summary file in thunderbird) in a rather complicated database format called Mork - the less said of it the better. http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/312657.html
Extracting information from it using anything other than mozilla itself is a nightmare. Apart from the reasons mentioned by Richard, I think this move will make searching and extracting information a lot easier. /Siddharth