1544466 - Local Storage is lost in new tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1453699

(Core :: Storage: localStorage & sessionStorage, defect)

Description

[Lachezar Dobrev]

Attachment: Test page to display issue, must be HTTPS served

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

Select 'Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed' option in 'Privacy & Security' in 'Preferences'.

Open page/site that uses cookies and localStorage. The page must be served via HTTPS protocol.

A. Duplicate Tab
or
B. Open New Tab, navigate to the same page

Actual results:

Contents of 'document.cookie' are retained.
Contents of 'window.localStorage' are lost.

Expected results:

Contents of 'document.cookie' are retained.
Contents of 'window.localStorage' are retained.

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

I can reproduce the issue on Firefox67 beta.
But, I cannot reproduce on Nigtly68.
This seems have already been fixed in Nightly68.

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

Fixed window:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=5e8cc2d02203362b91e84197585de9a82eeeff64&tochange=456bdb1cc727ce71bb5dc70533e43e12191e0071

Fixed by: Bug 1517090

The fix is landed on Nightly only...