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=Proposal: A Plan for Profile Sharing= | |||
[mailto:darin@meer.net Darin Fisher] | [mailto:darin@meer.net Darin Fisher] | ||
==Overview== | |||
The purpose of this document is to outline a plan for enabling the sharing | The purpose of this document is to outline a plan for enabling the sharing | ||
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across multiple hosts. | across multiple hosts. | ||
==Requirements== | |||
The major requirements for profile sharing include: | The major requirements for profile sharing include: | ||
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* The profile sharing scheme must be ''frozen'' to a degree sufficient to ensure compatibility with future applications. | * The profile sharing scheme must be ''frozen'' to a degree sufficient to ensure compatibility with future applications. | ||
==Files to be Shared== | |||
The existing Mozilla-based applications store a number of different files | The existing Mozilla-based applications store a number of different files | ||
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the files that we are most interested in sharing. | the files that we are most interested in sharing. | ||
===Cache=== | |||
The web cache is by far the largest collection of files stored in the user | The web cache is by far the largest collection of files stored in the user | ||
profile. Because of its large footprint on disk, sharing the disk cache is | profile. Because of its large footprint on disk, sharing the disk cache is | ||
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advantage over Thunderbird when a user revisits a piece of HTML mail. | advantage over Thunderbird when a user revisits a piece of HTML mail. | ||
===Certificates=== | |||
It is common for corporations to provide certificates to employees for use | It is common for corporations to provide certificates to employees for use | ||
to sign and seal emails as well as to access internal websites. Therefore | to sign and seal emails as well as to access internal websites. Therefore | ||
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certificates from a central database managed by the operating system). | certificates from a central database managed by the operating system). | ||
===Cookies=== | |||
Cookies are an important part of the web-platform. By supporting shared | Cookies are an important part of the web-platform. By supporting shared | ||
cookies, we enable other applications to inherit user identity when they | cookies, we enable other applications to inherit user identity when they | ||
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user's preferences for that site as configured using Firefox. | user's preferences for that site as configured using Firefox. | ||
===Preferences=== | |||
Sharing preferences is perhaps the main use case for profile sharing. The | Sharing preferences is perhaps the main use case for profile sharing. The | ||
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detail best left for another proposal ;-) | detail best left for another proposal ;-) | ||
===What | ===What About Other Files?=== | ||
Most of the other files in the profile are application specific. For example, | Most of the other files in the profile are application specific. For example, | ||
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</div> | </div> | ||
====The IPC | ==A Scheme for Profile Sharing== | ||
===The IPC Daemon and the Transaction Manager Extension=== | |||
The [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/ipc/ipcd/ IPC daemon] | The [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/ipc/ipcd/ IPC daemon] | ||
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not persisted to the profile. | not persisted to the profile. | ||
===Supporting a Shared Disk Cache=== | |||
The disk cache cannot be shared easily or efficiently using the transaction | The disk cache cannot be shared easily or efficiently using the transaction | ||
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This may be enough of a reason to go with this kind of solution. | This may be enough of a reason to go with this kind of solution. | ||
===Supporting Shared NSS Databases=== | |||
The NSS .db files can be shared by creating a library with the name | The NSS .db files can be shared by creating a library with the name | ||
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particular from the socket transport thread. | particular from the socket transport thread. | ||
==Next Steps== | |||
* Agree on general plan for profile sharing</li> | * Agree on general plan for profile sharing</li> | ||