What to do when storage quota is exceeded `QuotaExceededError`

[daviddias]

If reporting a bug:

1. Can you describe the problem and bug in more detail?

As soon as I imported my bookmarks, pocket and browsing history, I immediately filled my browser quota for the Storex. It seems that it is simply hitting the Group Limit

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_API/Browser_storage_limits_and_eviction_criteria

2. How can we replicate the issue?

3. Expected behavior (i.e. solution)

4. Error stack (from extension crash page)

Error: QuotaExceededError The current transaction exceeded its quota limitations.

5. Other comments

Do you have any advice to work around this? Have you considered some "hacks" such as:

• Ask the user for Unlimited Storage https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/permissions#Unlimited_storage

• Creating multiple domains that can serve as storage backends? I would expect that most users might all under <2GB and <10GB of bookmarks, so having 5 domains (or groups) might do the trick

• Use the 2GB as a cache and the backup backend as the persistant storage?

[blackforestboi]

yeah we have issues with firefox. It is not committing to the infinite persistent storage of the spec. That is why by default on new extensions we disable screenshots.

How many items did you import? 2gb even for full-text should mean it is roughly 130.000 items? (which is a lot) :D

[daviddias]

yeah we have issues with firefox. It is not committing to the infinite persistent storage of the spec.

This is interesting. Do you have a reproducible test? We could add this to the list at https://github.com/arewedistributedyet/arewedistributedyet/issues as it will be essential to enable full P2P apps on Firefox.

How many items did you import? 2gb even for full-text should mean it is roughly 130.000 items? (which is a lot) :D

How did you reach the 130000 number?

My import looks like:

In a fresh memex import, it starts crashing at

I wanted to get the console log but unfortunately the browser got so stuck that not even the console would open

Now that I've reopen the browser with memex with the goal of finishing my import (mostly pocket bookmarks), I am getting

Other than the numbers, these logs are not super useful. Is there anything I can provide that would help you point me on the right direction? Thanks in advance!