1138612 - Can't login on Treeherder with DOM storage disabled

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Tree Management :: Treeherder, defect)

Description

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

STR
1. load https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=mozilla-central
2. click "login/register" in the upper right corner of the page

ACTUAL RESULTS
a login.persona.org window opens saying
"We are sorry, but currently your browser is not supported."

EXPECTED RESULTS
being able to login

I am using a Nightly build on Linux with the following pref:
user_pref("dom.storage.enabled", false);

I have disabled that pref because I believe it's generally used for tracking.

Comment 1

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Are you able to log into other Persona sites?

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

I tried air.mozilla.org, it doesn't work there either when dom.storage.enabled is false.

Comment 3

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Persona unfortunately doesn't seem to support logging in with localstorage disabled, so there's nothing we can do here:
https://github.com/mozilla/persona/issues/3886

I'd suggest filing a bug against Persona and/or using an addon to let you whitelist certain domains for localstorage.

Comment 4

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

This bug is really somewhere between invalid (it's filed against the wrong product) and wontfix (we're not going to stop using Persona), but I've marked it as wontfix, lest you think I'm "not being honest" again after bug 1138248 ;-)