Re: Accessing Bookmarks...

Dan Mosedale <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.rdf
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
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