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

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