[SOLVED] Creepy: Chromium is accessing keys and certs in ~/.mozilla folder?

chris0 · 08-21-2013, 10:51 AM

This lsof output says chromium is accessing files from the .mozilla/firefox folder in my home directory! What does this mean? The files look like keys and certificates.

(BTW Firefox is not open, and ~/.mozilla symlinks to the .mozilla location shown below)

Thanks for looking - C

Code:

chromium- 3381               cb   19r      REG       8,33   114688        831 /media/cb/ce1/cb/ref/.mozilla/firefox/gjycy6rl.default/cert8.db
chromium- 3381               cb   20r      REG       8,33    16384        832 /media/cb/ce1/cb/ref/.mozilla/firefox/gjycy6rl.default/key3.db
Chrome_Ch 3381 3382          cb   19r      REG       8,33   114688        831 /media/cb/ce1/cb/ref/.mozilla/firefox/gjycy6rl.default/cert8.db
Chrome_Ch 3381 3382          cb   20r      REG       8,33    16384        832 /media/cb/ce1/cb/ref/.mozilla/firefox/gjycy6rl.default/key3.db
chromium- 3381 3388          cb   19r      REG       8,33   114688        831 /media/cb/ce1/cb/ref/.mozilla/firefox/gjycy6rl.default/cert8.db
chromium- 3381 3388          cb   20r      REG       8,33    16384        832 /media/cb/ce1/cb/ref/.mozilla/firefox/gjycy6rl.default/key3.db
chromium- 3381 3389          cb   19r      REG       8,33   114688        831 /media/cb/ce1/cb/ref/.mozilla/firefox/gjycy6rl.default/cert8.db
chromium- 3381 3389          cb   20r      REG       8,33    16384        832 /media/cb/ce1/cb/ref/.mozilla/firefox/gjycy6rl.default/key3.db
chromium- 3381 3390          cb   19r      REG       8,33   114688        831 /media/cb/ce1/cb/ref/.mozilla/firefox/gjycy6rl.default/cert8.db

rokytnji · 08-21-2013, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Creepy

Why do you say that? Chromium is open source.

chris0 · 08-21-2013, 12:26 PM

I doubt Chromium itself, as a project, has any creepy intent.

But I am unnerved by it accessing keys and certificates in Firefox's folder, in my home folder.

Why would it do that?

rokytnji · 08-21-2013, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Why would it do that?

To function better. When I used Chromium in AntiX. It used the libflashplayer.so from /usr/lib/flashplayer-nonfree/
so that I did not have to manually insert the path in Chromium for flash videos to play.

Chromium borrows a lot from Mozilla folders so you don't have to manually access them yourself to get things working.

chris0 · 08-21-2013, 01:18 PM

Thanks rokytnji, that's interesting and reassuring.