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NSS Shared DB

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Profile issues
Mozilla apps can create more than one profile. Developers use this capability
to test bugs that new users are likely to run into without loosing their own
production evironmentenvironment.
Shared databases, in general, means that some of the current semantics of user
profiles will break. Creating a new profile will not create a new
key/cert/master password profile. For developers (the primary users of profiles)
it seems importan important to preserve some of the existing semantics. I can see a
couple of options.
 
# Allow profiles to be marked with 'private key/cert DB's. This will change The Mozilla app from a Mode 3A app to a Mode 2A app. This will return developers to their previous semantic if they want, while allowing them to also test the interaction of different profiles and the same database. It would require UI changes to the profile manager, and it will require action on the part of the developer to get back to the old semantic.
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