1813544 - indexedDB not usable on private mode in Firefox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1639542

(Core :: Privacy: Anti-Tracking, defect)

Description

[dupont.thomas70]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0

Steps to reproduce:

Related to this github issue:

https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/117284

Open this link in private mode with the last version of firefox

https://www.libmanuels.fr/auth?access_token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJFRFVMSUIiLCJpYXQiOjE2NjkwMTkwMTksImV4cGlyZXNfaW4iOjIxODU5MjAwLCJjcmVhdGVkX2F0IjoiMjAyMi0xMS0yMSAwOToyMzozOSArMDEwMCIsInJlZnJlc2hfdG9rZW4iOiJmV0VKWF9RcjdxcHlhNGlTX09EaHpQX1FEOGhhNlIwWHFIbVBQY3Zmbzg0IiwianRpIjoiNTI4MTQ3NTUtOTg4ZS00NWE0LTk3MjItNzgyM2Y4N2NlYjgzIiwidXNlciI6eyJpZCI6IjYzMTY1NzBiYTk4MmE5MDAzZjMwOTU1YSJ9fQ.OWbT9vZjFd_lo5Jm1XtyrPflX3cEkOQIo2Yg4F6Eyr-pqTwtmcRbflv84CRpcsqmN1raodDBVyC-ERnfVPPnH9daqlRjI0JLsDsLdDPuVcZJbx6TefQFZIg9iGliWTqa_ZW49OwjTvNnUW2zBsqqp8D1kiGZX_vZoPmZGCIf5yqwqjtO0RfYaNcgMilGEuOtUQhdPcTqSdRhIElwas4eFHzFIA1s25PsnGpe8Lm7Tdc0uYiXM-B7JkRWhVXiNTwbjLXkEUlHZ4cA2PrWZRNq8u8e3zesbZQgLYl8iyW-VEPwF5gjVSFK4rRWu-I2doqIkMT5LE87ADEIkMWqYyV2UA&textbook_reference=4a28c2-f6905c-05b2c7&context=gar&id_ent=QjA%3D&id_etab=MDI0MDAwN0M%3D&local_access=true

Actual results:

This app is using indexedDB to store the token and some user info for a "as PWA" usage and the indexedDB is not usable and the app crash

Expected results:

The app is oppening, as chrome in private mode for exemple

Comment 1

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

This is because Firefox private browsing is intended to not store any user data on disk. This is being addressed in bug 1639542.