1266409 - service workers are disabled when setting "Never remember history"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1320796

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

STRs:
- check navigator.serviceWorker is defined in webconsole
- open preferences
- go to privacy
- set History to "Never remember history"
- restart the browser as prompted
- navigator.serviceWorker is now false

Is this an expected behavior? 

If yes, UIs such as about:debugging and about:serviceworkers need to check this in order to display a message explaining service workers will not work with the current setting.

Comment 1

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Dan, maybe you know the expected behavior here?

Comment 2

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

"Never remember history" is the same as always being in private browsing.
It sets browser.privatebrowsing.autostart to true.

Comment 3

[Dan Callahan [:callahad]]

Sorry for the delay in responding.

I don't know what the right behavior is, but based on :ochameau's response, adding a message to about:debugging and about:serviceworkers seems like a reasonable step.

Our user-facing ServiceWorker story in general is pretty rough, e.g. Bug 1253031 - Impossible to clear data cached by Service Workers through any exposed UI. I'll be working to get some traction on that this quarter.

Comment 4

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

Bug 1320796 implements ServiceWorkers in Private Browsing Mode which also includes Permanent Private Browsing Mode, which is what never remember history does.