472513 - dom.storage.default_quota value of 5MB causes unresponsive script on maemo

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8) (PTO back normal Nov 17)]

in the mochitest/chrome tests, we have chrome/dom/tests/mochitest/chrome/test_domstorage.xul which as one of the 54 tests it does is add 5MB of data to the domstorage.globalStorage.  This causes fennec on maemo to run into unresponsive script errors.

Since this limit is browser specific (5MB in firefox) we should set it lower to something like 1MB.  In my test, I was able to get 640KB to work by setting this in the user_pref(..) and modifying the test file domstorage_global.js#88 to have a value of 4091 instead of 32767.  

this is a workaround needed for automation.  In manual testing, I was able to get 1280KB to work on maemo.

We should decide:
 - what is the default value for fennec
 - how should the automation handle this

Comment 1

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8) (PTO back normal Nov 17)]

moving to the test the component it lives in.

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Let's pick a good default

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Should be fixed by bug 448073