chrome cookie size limit

Question

Hi,

I'm writing into a session cookie from my plugin in chrome. The browser seems to have a strict limit of 4kb for cookie size. It doesnt seem the case in firefox. Is there anyway i can increase the cookie size limit in chrome?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can't change the cookie size but you can use several cookies and span your data across them, keeping one cookie as a pointer to other cookies so you know what they're called, how many there are, etc (like a partition table on a harddisk).

But perhaps you're approaching this the wrong way. If you need to do something like this, you're probably better off storing the data online as it has a better chance of survival and if you tie it in with some user registration, it's portable too.

There are other options like Google Gears and Mozilla Weave too.

Answer 2

Chrome supports HTML5 localStorage that allows you to use a dictionary style look up. You can use this to store larger amounts of data instead of passing them back and forth using cookies.