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A tool to create firefox profiles with personalized defaults.
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Clarify warning text for indexed_db.json #165

Closed oliver closed 5 years ago

oliver commented 5 years ago

Disabling indexedDB may actually cause browser tabs to crash; also, it happens not only with webapps but nowadays also with normal websites.

allo- commented 5 years ago

Crashing tabs are a Firefox bug. See https://www.reddit.com/r/ffprofile/comments/9eq0kc/crashing_youtube_tab/ for more discussion.

I am not sure if this should be added to the option or not. It is a Firefox bug, but on the other hand we may want to warn the users as long as it is unfixed by Mozilla.

allo- commented 5 years ago

I pull it for now. Maybe we should track if Mozilla fixes the underlying bug(s).

oliver commented 5 years ago

The crash I observed on reddit.com is probably tracked at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?format=default&id=1450160 which has been open since 2018-03-29. Judging from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1486587 it looks like these crashes will be fixed rather by removing this setting altogether in favor of more general data storage options.

Btw. the Reddit crash with dom.indexedDB.enabled=false indeed disappeared when disabling Service Workers as well (with user_pref("dom.serviceWorkers.enabled",false)). Not sure how to present this information on ffprofile.com, though.

allo- commented 5 years ago

Thank you, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488583 is a very interesting bug for this.