Closed Bug 595542 Opened 14 years ago Closed 13 years ago

localStorage does not persist when location.protocol=="file:"

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Core & HTML
Platform:
x86
Windows Vista
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 507361

People

(Reporter: DougL14, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6 GTB7.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6 GTB7.1

localStorage does not persist between loads of the same local page (i.e., when URL is like file:///C:/any.html) even in the same tab of the same Firefox session.  E.g., when the following page is reloaded:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <head>
<script type="text/javascript">

  function handleOnload() {

        var html = '<br>localStorage.getItem("key"): ' + localStorage.getItem('key');
        localStorage.setItem('key','val');
        html += '<br>localStorage.getItem("key"): ' + localStorage.getItem('key');
        document.getElementById('id').innerHTML = html;
  }
</script>
</head>
<body onload="handleOnload();">
        <p id="id">
</body>
</html>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy the above example into a file on your machine and try it.
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
localStorage.getItem("key"): null
localStorage.getItem("key"): val

(even after reload -- so the data has not persisted).

Expected Results:  
When first loaded ...
localStorage.getItem("key"): null
localStorage.getItem("key"): val

The reloaded ...
localStorage.getItem("key"): val
localStorage.getItem("key"): val
Component: Developer Tools → DOM
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: developer.tools → general
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Component: DOM → DOM: Core & HTML
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