On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Walter do Valle <w...@jfsc.jus.br> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm looking for a way to programmatically find the current Firefox profile
> folder. I'm developing a digital signing solution entirely in web. In other
> words, I'm developing a signed Java applet that reads the personal
> certificate inside a PKCS#11 module configured in Firefox. My problem
> resides in how to locate the path of current profile folder. I need it
> because there are some files used for Firefox certificate repository. I was
> trying some Javascript solution, however I fell in some security issues. As
> far as I know is not possible simply to call a javascript that give me the
> path.
> If you guys know how to do that, please give me the trick.
> Thanks in advance.

>From javascript, it is described here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Code_snippets/File_I%2F%2FO
var file = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/directory_service;1"].
           getService(Components.interfaces.nsIProperties).
           get("ProfD", Components.interfaces.nsIFile);

Regards,
Martijn


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