What is the maximum size of local storage available for Firefox add-ons and/or Chrome extensions?

Question

Designing some extensions that will continuously update a dataset that is used to render additional information on webpages.

Answer 1

This isn't standardized, but a Chrome extension is limited to 5 MB unless you ask for extra space: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/dev/manifest.html#permissions

You could use this as a rough guide to see if the problem you were trying to solve is appropriate for localStorage. If it's a lot less than 5MB, you're probably okay (though note many browsers don't have full support yet), but if it's more, it's probably the wrong solution.