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As of today, all the above must be managed for each application and profile separately. It's desirable to share this information across multiple applications and profiles. By default, this storage shall be user specific across all NSS based applications. This page is about the required changes to Mozilla/PSM in order to make this sharing happen. | As of today, all the above must be managed for each application and profile separately. It's desirable to share this information across multiple applications and profiles. By default, this storage shall be user specific across all NSS based applications. This page is about the required changes to Mozilla/PSM in order to make this sharing happen. | ||
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The shared database feature is considered a stable feature of the NSS library. | |||
It's already possible to make use of profile sharing using environment variables. More information can be found on the corresponding NSS wiki pages: | |||
The feature shall get enabled for Mozilla applications by default (without requiring environment variables) in future Firefox and Thunderbird versions. | |||
=Migration= | |||
=Implementation decisions to be made= | |||
==Path to user's DEFAULT shared database== | ==Path to user's DEFAULT shared database== | ||
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On Mac OSX: | On Mac OSX: | ||
'''$HOME/Library/Application Support/NSS/''' | '''$HOME/Library/Application Support/NSS/''' | ||
==Disadvantage of using a default path== | ==Disadvantage of using a default path== | ||