Can I retrieve a favicon from places.sqlite?

Question

I'm making a webextension to manage bookmarks. The bookmarks API works fine. Now, I'd like to get a handle of the favicons that are stored in the moz_favicon table of the places.sqlite database.

So far, no luck, hence questions :

• is it possible at all to access places.sqlite from inside a webextension ?
• if yes, how ?

A while back, I made the same thing on Google Chrome. There, accessing the favicons was rather easy thanks to the special url chrome://favicon/... Is there something similar here ?

Answer 1

is it possible at all to access places.sqlite from inside a webextension?

not with firefox atm, you'd have to propose a new api, implement it, test it, get it reviewed by a bunch of people, and maybe after all of that the functionality will be available in firefox.....

good luck!