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A tool to create firefox profiles with personalized defaults.
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Disabling IndexedDB breaks sites #135

Closed allo- closed 5 years ago

allo- commented 6 years ago

IndexedDB seems to become more and more important for different websites, like e.g. GMail (https://github.com/allo-/firefox-profilemaker/issues/130#issuecomment-419700161) and needs a bigger warning and possibly another default value

allo- commented 6 years ago

localstorage probably has a similar problem, but we do not disable it by default. Disabling cookies completely will break many websites as well.

Is there a quantum firefox compatible addon, which clears cookies and different storages at exit to make them "session cookies"? Maybe some "cookie" addons can help, as firefox' forget history function seems to clear all storage apis when removing cookies.

allo- commented 6 years ago

More and more reports are coming in, the default should probably be changed.

tjbenator commented 5 years ago

Figured out that this breaks the twitter.com login page too. It appears that once you login, IndexedDB can be re-enabled.

allo- commented 5 years ago

Twitter is complicated. Disabling (all) cookies even breaks reading tweets, because you get an infinite redirect loop.

I wonder if we should change the setting to "not disabled" in the default profile and maybe refer to some addons that deletes browser storages, that can be added in the addons section.

As Mozilla unified the storage cleanup APIs, there could even be "Cookie" cleaners, that work for IndexedDB / localstorage.

allo- commented 5 years ago

It seems, that Mozilla has removed the option to disable indexedDB and introduced some bugs when dom.indexedDB.enabled is set to false. I close here now. Bug #166 can be used for discussing the alternatives.