539176 - window.Storage returns 'enabled' even if dom.storage.enabled is set to 'false' in about:config

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[bugzilla33]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100105 Firefox/3.6

Disabling the storage should just remove the attribute from the DOM.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open: about:config
2. change dom.storage.enabled to false
3. run testcase
Actual Results:  

alerts: enabled

Expected Results:  

alerts: disabled


http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8536#c8

From w3.org (Ian 'Hixie' Hickson):

Disabling the storage in that way should just remove the attribute from the
DOM, so that you can just do:

   if (window.Storage) { ... }

Comment 1

[bugzilla33]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven't been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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