Re: [Hampshire] Debian Lenny 5. Gnome Live CD.

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Debian Lenny 5. Gnome Live CD.

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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 09:08:05PM +0100, John Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:28:12 +0100
> Phillip Chandler <phillip.chandler@???> wrote:
> > Your probably asking why Im after using firefox 2.x. Just preference
> > really. Im just so into my own little annoying habits of how I want
> > to do things, and Im not yet ready to switch over to a browser that
> > does stuff via a database, and has a horrible drop down menu on the
> > link box.


If I recall, there's a drop-down box on the address bar in 2.x as
well, although the behaviour is a little different. That behaviour can
almost certainly be changed -- looking at "bar" in about:config shows
several plausible candidates. Without knowing what you object to, I
can't really suggest anything more than that.

Use of SQLite is really not that bad. It's way more robust than,
say, BDB, it's not a large library, and quite frankly I'd prefer that
than some horrid XML mess. :)

> iceweasel is firefox without the proprietary logos because they
> conflict with Debian rules. I happily use iceweasel and I see no
> database in my system (sid on this system and lenny on my laptop)


Firefox 3 uses SQLite to store much of its internal config data
now:

hrm@joshua:cy2ff62f.slt $ pwd
/home/hrm/.firefox/default/cy2ff62f.slt
hrm@joshua:cy2ff62f.slt $ ls *.sqlite
content-prefs.sqlite  permissions.sqlite     urlclassifier3.sqlite
cookies.sqlite          places.sqlite         webappsstore.sqlite
downloads.sqlite      search.sqlite
formhistory.sqlite    urlclassifier2.sqlite


Hugo.

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