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]>
