> I had certain privacy > addons cause a headache when it would wipe cookies and localStorage but not > prevent stuff being written or prevent it being read only shortly afterward > for example.
To clarify, at the risk of going off-topic, I /believe/ that it was the Better Privacy Firefox addon which was causing my issues before - it would occasionally delete a site's localStorage contents maybe to a pattern but after realising, I didn't keep it long enough to find out. > In fact, local storage DOES persist after a Firefox restart, and a PC > restart. The data is actually stored in a sqlite file in the FF profile > directory. To clear it external of a script, you must take the "clear ALL > cookies" option from the FF option interface. Clearing selective cookies, > even clearing all the cookies for the domain for which you've saved local > storage data, will not remove it. Since a lot of site customization is lost > when clearing all cookies, this would not be seen as inconsistent behavior. Maybe this is not an issue for you or your users but for anyone with similar addons or are using a userscript on a website that actively uses localStorage it might appear inconsistent to the user. > I fully understand your problem. I was presenting what it probably the best > solution of those solutions that currently exist (expect perhaps storing > them on an external site - with the overhead that would involve). You didn't > provide enough information to determine if it's valid in your particular > situation (use of sub-domains, etc.). Agreed that of the solutions that currently exist, localStorage is probably the best choice but I understand this to be a suggestion to address the cases where localStorage is not appropriate. I suggest that this discussion is moved to the [email protected] mailing list < http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-dev > as it crosses into the development of Greasemonkey itself (a feature request) as opposed to purely a user-scripting issue. Regards, kwah -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users?hl=en.
