Pale Moon forum

Hello everybody - new Pale Moon user here my thanks to all the hard work that went into providing this excellent browser for us.

Two days into my using Pale Moon - I realized that Protonmail refused to budge beyond the "loading" login page unless I set the about:config preference dom.storage.enabled to True.

I'd like your two cents on this setting since I'm getting a lot of mixed messages from multiple sources - some say its advised to keep on False for good privacy hygiene - others shrug it off and say "breaks too many websites otherwise - so just set it to true".

My thoughts were - if it comes set as False by default in Pale Moon, then it must be the better setting...

Just FYI - I made sure no extension/plugin/cookie setting issue was responsible for the hang up on Protonmail btw. It was only able to finally be fixed by turning dom.storage.enabled to True. Any other work-arounds to this issue would of course be appreciated.

You should leave it at default, which is the value true.

infotiko wrote: ↑

2019-09-25, 09:26

if it comes set as False by default in Pale Moon, then it must be the better setting...

It doesn't. The default setting is true (enabled), and it's strongly discouraged to disable this (unless you want to break many web applications out there).

infotiko wrote: ↑

2019-09-25, 09:26

Any other work-arounds to this issue would of course be appreciated.

As already told you above leave the setting at its default value and whenever you don't want any data stored behind your neck switch to private mode browsing.

Thanks guys - appreciate the clarification. No idea how it was set to False with PM fresh out of the box - I never touched the about:config before this, but really glad it's not a huge privacy concern.

It's not a concern, and anyway you can control whether it's allowed or create a list of sites allowed/denied access to it from preferences-advanced-network tab, no need to mess around in about:config for this.

Some extensions also take care of dealing with it if you're particularily paranoid.

It is my understanding that DOM storage is used only if cookies are allowed. This is true, right?

AFAIK that's right except for Internet Explorer.

moonbat wrote: ↑

2019-09-25, 13:19

you can control whether it's allowed or create a list of sites allowed/denied access to it from preferences-advanced-network tab

Been reading a little. I don't know alot about storage, but that doesn't seem correct.

If I'm mistaken someone will correct me, but AFAIU the "Offline Web Content and User Data" section in Preferences -> Advanced -> Network tab concerns the AppCache, not the storage controlled by dom.storage.enabled (see Pale-Moon-issue#859-comment). It relates to several entirely other back-end settings that work together (in about:config filter on offline-apps) and its data AFAIK is saved in the profile in the OfflineCache folder/directory.

But dom.storage.enabled, to my knowledge, toggles this: Web Storage API.
This data is stored in the profile in webappsstore.sqlite.
And as other have said above, it follows your cookie permissions - I think, both globally and per/site.
The storage can be visualized (for the site you're currently on) in the Storage pane of the web console if that is enabled, or via a couple of cookie extensions that I know of, though maybe there's more (CookieKeeper, Cookie Controller, obtainable through CAA).

There's a list of some storage types here: Storage API

You are right.