Not working in Private Mode

[rgaudin]

Since our PouchDB design relies on IndexedDB, we are dependent on IndexedDB working in the browser.

In Firefox, IndexedDB is disabled in Private Browsing mode. See #781982 and #1562669. The latter shows that work is in progress to add support for it.

Summary: all currently available versions of Firefox can't use IDB in private mode (and thus nautilus-based ZIMs). Chrome and Safari not affected ; apps not affected obviously.

Questions: Givent that, how much of a problem is that? @kelson42 @Popolechien

[Popolechien]

Looks like an edge case to me, we certainly can live with it.

[kelson42]

Same here, I would keep the ticket open for now, but not a priority to fix.

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[kelson42]

New upstream ticket https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1639542

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[Jaifroid]

Still an issue in Firefox 113.02.

[rgaudin]

Bug is still open upstream (with activity):

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781982
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1639542

Looks like it should arrive relatively soon: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1831058

[kelson42]

The problem has been fixed upstream and it works now (on recent browsers)

See:

I don't think we should/could reasonably do anything more