Vijay wrote:
Hi,
I'm coming from mozilla to firefox & thunderbird. I'd like firefox &
thunderbird to use the same security device/store for passwords,
certificates, keys, etc.
How can I do this?
Today, you cannot. AFAIK.
I'm guessing this would be easy for linux - just create some symlinks
for the *.db, *.s, and *.w files.
Doing that would guarantee corruption of those files in short order,
especially the .db files.
I hope that the motivation for this is clear: I don't want to manage
passwords, keys, and certificates in multiple places. With mozilla,
there was the browser and mail client used a single store.
Yes. It's a problem. What is needed is an open source database engine
that is simultaneously accessible by multiple processes, passes the
"ACID" test (a well-known set of database tests), is MPL license
compatible, and does not require all the DB-sharing programs to shutdown
and restart whenever any one of them crashes. Finding such a beast has
proven most difficult.
I hope this is possible with firefox/tbird.
One option is for mozilla to create its own local DB server process,
that is shared by mozilla, firefox and tbird. I think someone may
be working on that now (not sure). It may happen soon.
But not today. AFAIK.
--
Nelson B
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