Firefox Bookmark runner

[Will Stephenson]

On Sunday 01 November 2009 22:49:04 Eduardo Robles Elvira wrote:
> I have some questions about the runner. It seems to access to firefox
> places sqlite database. What happens if (much likely if you use this
> runner) firefox is running and thus also connected to the sqlite
> database, can't the database get corrupted? AFAIK sqlite does not run
> as external server process to which the applications can connect to,
> so both the runner and firefox would be accessing to the database at
> the same time, and that seems to ask for data corruption. I might be
> talking shit because I don't much about sqlite, so please enlighten
> me.

Zeitgeist (for gnome) work by accessing Firefox' sqlite databases, and does 
this apparently safely by taking a copy of the file before reading it.  No 
guarantee if this is right, I may be talking somebody else's shit too.

Will