Re: Accessing Bookmarks...
Dan Mosedale <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.rdf |
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| Organization | Another Netscape Collabra Server User |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Neil wrote: > Dan Mosedale wrote: > >> Neil wrote: >> >>> Larry wrote: >>> >>>> I'm trying to access a list of Firefox bookmarks via XPCOM from a >>>> Win32 program . . . >>> >>> >>> IIRC Firefox is statically linked so you can't access any of its >>> components from another process, even if you were able to lock the >>> profile. >> >> >> I'm confused. How is the method of Firefox's linkage relevant to his >> question at all? > > > My (admittedly limited) understanding was that the bookmarks service was > linked into firefox.exe thus making it unusable from an external app. > Well, your app couldn't load that XPCOM component from the installed Firefox, this is true. But one could certainly build a separate copy from the firefox source and ship that. Dan