[SOLVED] You are running a browser with no localStorage or userData support. Logging in from one tab will not cause another tab to be logged in

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When running Meteor in my Firefox I get lately the following:

You are running a browser with no localStorage or userData support. Logging in from one tab will not cause another tab to be logged in.

Opening Chrome I don’t get this error and the error occurs in Firefox only on localhost. Anyone ever experienced that as well?

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I wonder if Firefox changed the security policy around local storage? I’m guessing the difference between localhost and your prod env is https?

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Just tested with Firefox 94 on linux ubuntu, no problem.

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I actually think this is not an issue with FF in general but something I caused during dev somehow, because the exact same browser works fine on some of our other instances in production.

Edit: in dev it also works on other ports than 3000

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Okay I created a local copy of Meteor’s internal localstorage package and found, the issue is not raised due to the following code:

try {
  storage = global.localStorage;

  if (storage) {
    storage.setItem(key, key);
    retrieved = storage.getItem(key);
    storage.removeItem(key);
  }
} catch (ignored) {} // missing info

The exception I get is a DOMException with code 22 and message The quota has been exceeded.

Related issue in FF Bug tracker: 1683299 - localStorage.setItem causes DOMException: The quota has been exceeded without any localStorage

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Finally resolved - somehow I got a ton of data on my localhost and some unused ports from apps I developed a few months back still occupied localstorage space which led to the overall localstorage to overflow but it was just not clear from the error message.

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Yes, sometimes multiple entry with Localhost can cause the issue. Finally fixed too.