1437829 - Indexed DB Databse not shown in Developer Tools for local HTML page

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Storage: IndexedDB, defect, P2)

Description

[weiss.nikolaus]

Attachment: A screenshot of the Storage section in the Developer Tools with no IDB

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.89 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Create local HTML page which uses Javascript to create and use an Indexed DB.
Open Developer Tools and go to Storage section.
Under Indexed DB, select the page that is currently open.


Actual results:

The page works normally, but the Indexed DB is not shown in the Storage section of the Developer Tools.


Expected results:

The page works normally, and the Indexed DB should be shown and be manageable in the Storage section of the Developer Tools.

Comment 1

[weiss.nikolaus]

I also posted a question on Stackoverflow months ago. According to the comments, at least one other user is independently experiencing the same issue. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46766681/why-cant-i-see-my-indexed-db-in-firefox-dev-tools

Comment 2

[Marion Daly [:mdaly]]

P2 until confirmed, if it remains unconfirmed move to P3/P5. Jan, want to take a quick look?

Comment 3

[weiss.nikolaus]

The issue still persists as of version 59.0.2 (64-bit). Chrome used to have the same issue, but has seemingly fixed it. When running a local page, the default scope of shown Databases is file://, and all databases created by local applications are shown in the dev console. Firefox seems to try to show databases for the scope of the specific path of the page (e.g. file:/D:/webDev/...), instead of showing databases for all local pages (file://).

Comment 4

[weiss.nikolaus]

Attachment: Screenshot of IDB shown in Chrome dev console

A screenshot of the Chrome dev console, displaying all IDBs created for local pages. Attached to help illustrate point made in last comment.

Comment 5

[Marion Daly [:mdaly]]

removing NI and adding to DWS_NEXT

Comment 6

[jhon]

Make sure you're using the correct developer tools for your browser <a href="https://toolsbuyingguide.com/">Information</a>. Try refreshing the page or restarting the browser. If the issue persists, check if your IndexedDB setup is correct and permissions are granted for local storage access.

Comment 7

[jhon]

Make sure you're using the correct developer tools for your browser Information. Try refreshing the page or restarting the browser. If the issue persists, check if your IndexedDB setup is correct and permissions are granted for local storage access.