> "I had more trouble with the assertion that the embedded DB would be maintenance-free. I started a top level comment asking for someone to explain how that wo

> "I had more trouble with the assertion that the embedded DB would be maintenance-free. I started a top level comment asking for someone to explain how that would work." When is the last time a certed-up DBA had to do any maintenance on your Firefox install's places.sqlite database? That's what's meant by maintenance free; you can reasonably employ sqlite databases on users' computers, without users having the foggiest idea of what a database even is.