Re: Firefox 126.0 with DBus service

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Martin Stransky venit, vidit, dixit 2024-05-17 13:41:27:
> On 5/17/24 11:37, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> > Martin Stransky venit, vidit, dixit 2024-05-17 11:30:01:
> >> On 5/17/24 11:14, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> >>> Martin Stransky venit, vidit, dixit 2024-05-17 11:04:47:
> >>>> On 5/17/24 10:47, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> >>>>> On 17/05/2024 10:38, Martin Stransky wrote:
> >>>>>> Hm, does really KDE Plasma access Firefox profile and searches it for
> >>>>>> anything? That's interesting. Can you point me to any info about it?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It looks like it copies Firefox's *.sqlite databases to
> >>>>> ~/.cache/bookmarksrunner on every user login and then uses them:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> $ ls ~/.cache/bookmarksrunner/ | grep firefox
> >>>>> bookmarkrunnerfirefoxdbfile.sqlite
> >>>>> bookmarkrunnerfirefoxfavdbfile.sqlite
> >>>>> KRunner-Favicons-firefox-default
> >>>>
> >>>> I see. I don't think it's useful for gnome search as it uses live data
> >>>> (also from recently visited URL) and also sorts results for popularity.
> >>>> It should give you the same results as writing directly to Firefox URL bar.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> This feature looks more and more confusing.
> >>>
> >>> How do the search providers (be it Gnome's or Plasma's variant) decide
> >>> which Firefox Profile to scrape?
> >>
> >> The searches are received from the first launched Firefox instance and
> >> its profile. Due to Firefox remote service usually all your FF windows
> >> use the same profile and there's usually only one profile per user.
> >>
> >> So usually you'll get search results from the recent Firefox you're running.
> > 
> > I guess I'm unusual then ...
> > 
> > If you do use "-no-remote -P $Profile" to have instances with separate
> > profiles, you have to start the "search provider profile" first. Or
> > maybe Gonome search starts the default profile first anyways. There is
> > no apparent way to control this.
> > 
> > I mean, I would understand if the search uses the default profile, but
> > just any running instance? Strong dislike over here.
> > 
> > In any case, I think we should *not* sneak this in unannouced, but with
> > a clear information about wht it does and how turn it off.
> 
> You can enable/disable gnome search by 
> browser.gnome-search-provider.enabled at about:config for your profile.
> 
> There isn't any 'default' profile, Firefox usually use only one.

"Use the selected profile without asking at startup" is the check box
presented by "firefox -ProfileManager". If that is not a default profile
then I don't know what is.
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