On 2009-07-03 01:43 PDT, Andrei Korostelev wrote:

> Does Firefox 3.5 already support multi-process shared secrurity
> database or it is still single-process?

By default, it is still the old single-process cert8 and key3 DBs,
as before.

However, FF 3.5 has the code to support shared-access cert9 and key4 DBs,
based on sqlite3.  You can force FF 3.5 to use that by setting an
environment variable.

> Is non-shared security Db still the case with upcoming Firefox 3.5?

The old non-shared security DBs are still the default in FF 3.5.

> Is SecurityDb in Firefox 3 multiuser?

Multi-user is a different matter than multi-process.
FF 3.5's new cert9 and key3 DB are multi-process capable,
but I would NOT describe them as multi-user.
They are a pair, and the private keys in the key DB are, of course,
private to each individual user.  So, each user needs his/her own
key DB, and since they are a pair, this implies that each user needs
his/her own cert DB too.  But with cert9.db, all that user's processes
can share a common pair of DBs.
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