HTML5 LocalStorage size

Question

Hello,

Can anyone explain me the size of window.localStorage (for example, 5MB in Firefox) is 5MB for each scope or only for all?

Answer 1

Regarding Firefox, quoting fron a John Resig article (posted January 2007)::

Storage Space

It is implied that, with DOM Storage, you have considerably more storage space than the typical user agent limitations imposed upon Cookies. However, the amount that is provided is not defined in the specification, nor is it meaningfully broadcast by the user agent.

If you look at the Mozilla source code we can see that 5120KB is the default storage size for an entire domain. This gives you considerably more space to work with than a typical 2KB cookie.

I guess it's the same for all the other browsers, but the default size can vary. For example, in Internet Explorer 8, the default is around 10Mb. Quoting from the MSDN article on DOM Storage:

window.localStorage

The localStorage attribute provides persistent storage areas for domains. It allows Web applications to store nearly 10 MB of user data, such as entire documents or a user's mailbox, on the client for performance reasons.