Comments on: Firefox 2: Client-side storage and a lot more

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:19:32 +0000

Ive tried this but some of my normal function dont seem to be working either. Is this because they’re obsolete now?

By: ituloy angsulong

ituloy angsulong — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:20:51 +0000

I stick with firefox. I tried upgrading to IE7 but then the FTP drag and drop would not function.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:57:49 +0000

Please add firefox cookies/bad web sites immunization in next version!
Firefox 2 cannot reject third party cookies!!!!!!!!

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:39:28 +0000

Help me please…
I just installed Firefox 2.0, and all of a sudden, my username/password isn't being inserted in the signon window (it always was before). I tried the usual suspects–I did not mistakenly tell FF not to remember the password for this site; and I also tried the remember password bookmarklet, but all to no avail–FF will not ask me to remember this password. What do I need to do to get around this?

By: Aaron Boodman

Aaron Boodman — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:16:34 +0000

IE already does support something very much like this feature and has for many years:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/persistence/overview.asp

This means that to do simple local storage in the two major browsers will no longer require the overhead of a flash object.

By: alain

alain — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:12:32 +0000

It seems to me that sessionStorage is a W3c spec that will appear officially soon: see http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/

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Interesting Posts around the Web | Chovy’s Blog — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:55:47 +0000

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By: Les Papier

Les Papier — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:48:56 +0000

Any effort to remove the inherent symptoms of Alzheimers in browsers surely helps. Dojo.storage use of Flash, regardless of how many tears they shed peeling the onion, is sweet and removes browser idio(t)syncrasies.

By: Daniel Luz

Daniel Luz — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 02:35:20 +0000

chenng, this is unfortunately true for now, but this storage system is not a proprietary feature. Hopefully other browsers (Opera and Safari comes to mind) will add support to it soon, and someday we may see IE offering it too. For now, I guess the best way is to use an abstract system like dojo.storage, that takes advantage of whatever your browser supports.

About the security problem, I thought of that too, but while taking a quick look at the docs it seems like though the global-domain storage in theory does exist, websites can’t access it at all, because of the inherent security model of the specifications. I have to read it more carefully to confirm that.

By: Caixiaopig

Caixiaopig — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 02:01:34 +0000

hope ie will support this features

By: Firefox 2: Client-side storage and a lot more

Firefox 2: Client-side storage and a lot more — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 01:26:16 +0000

[...] Firefox 2: Client-side storage and a lot more: “Firefox Bon Echo Alpha 3 just came out into the wild. This gives us a glimpse into new features that we will be getting. [...]

By: linb

linb — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:50:00 +0000

I agree with that:
“sounds good, but no body dare to develop a *firefox only* application in the market.”

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:47:28 +0000

Obviously this has potential for security problems:

“globalStorage[''] is accessible to all domains.”

I’d like to know how they plan on stopping people abusing it.

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Software As She’s Developed - Wanted: Massive Local Storage — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:53:13 +0000

[...] Ajax, AjaxPatterns, Dojo, Firefox, Flash, LocalStorage, Storage Local storage – beyond 2KB cookies – is now a step closer with the latest Firefox effort. You get a local storage API like this: sessionStorage.setItem(..) and globalStorage.namedItem(domain).setItem(..) [...]

By: chenggn

chenggn — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:07:45 +0000

sounds good, but no body dare to develop a *firefox only* application in the market.

By: chenggn

chenggn — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:05:04 +0000

sound good, but no body can develope a *firefox only* application in the market.

By: Julien Couvreur

Julien Couvreur — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:56:58 +0000

Yes, dojo.storage is still needed to abstract the browser differences…
How many iterations will it take for browsers to get to a standard client-side storage solution?

One more thing that is frustrating with these APIs: each browser uses a different store. This was an un-forseen advantage of using Flash for storage: it shares the same data store between browsers…

By: Brad Neuberg

Brad Neuberg — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:02:48 +0000

Hi folks; dojo.storage uses the concept of StorageProviders to encapsulate the specific way in which storage is done, giving a unified API for storage over different platforms, browsers, and environments. I plan on creating a WhatWGStorageProvider (which is the spec on which the Firefox storage is based on) which will use the native browser storage if it is available. Your code that uses dojo.storage would then not have to change when the new browser comes out – you can start using storage today (which uses Flash under the covers).

I’d love if someone submitted a WhatWGStorageProvider to me (which means it will happen faster); an IEStorageProvider would be nice too (the one that uses IE’s proprietary 60K of client side storage – see http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2005/08/ajax-internet-explorer-has-native.html for details)

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By: Channy

Channy — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:30:52 +0000

You can try it http://channy.creation.net/work/firefox/domstorage/ and http://people.mozilla.org/~myk/microsummaries/generators/