1755167 - registering serviceWorker fails when "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" is checked

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1552376

(Core :: DOM: Service Workers, defect)

Description

[Daniel Roesler]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:96.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/96.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Check the setting "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed"

2. Try to register a serviceWorker

navigator.serviceWorker.register("sw.js", { scope: './' })
    .then((sw) => console.log("file success!", sw))
    .catch((err) => console.log("file error!", err));

Actual results:

The service worker registration fails with the error:
"DOMException: The operation is insecure."

Additionally, the console has the output:
"Failed to register/update a ServiceWorker for scope ‘http://localhost:8000/’: Storage access is restricted in this context due to user settings or private browsing mode."

Expected results:

The service worker should succeed in loading.

NOTE: as requested in a previous bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429714#c19), I am filing a new bug

Comment 1

[Daniel Roesler]

Attachment: proof of concept example code

Attached is a proof of concept that can reproduce this issue. Extract and serve locally (e.g. "python -m http.server").

When "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" setting is checked, will throw an error when registering the service worker.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::DOM: Service Workers' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

[Thorin [:thorin]]

Hi Daniel

Thsis looks like a duplicate of Bug 1552376 shared + service workers throw a SecurityError when cookie lifetime policy = 2

• note: shared workers no longer does that
• this is because the cookies are session only

This will be fixed with

• normal window mode - bug 1681493 Deprecate and remove network.cookie.lifetimePolicy
  • this is well under way

PB mode - bug 1320796 - Support ServiceWorkers in Private Browsing Mode

• this is a bit different due to not touching disk and clearing memory: i.e I don't think cookies are set as session only - the sanitizing is handled differently, and SW (and SW cache and IDB implementation) in PB mode probably is more involved

Comment 4

[Jari Jalkanen]

Eden, would you agree this is a duplicate?

Comment 5

[Eden Chuang[:edenchuang]]

Yes, it is a duplicate of bug 1552376 that its description mentioned the same situation.