Represents the local storage area. Items in local storage are local to the machine the extension was installed on.
The browser may restrict the amount of data that an extension can store in the local storage area. For example:
- In Chrome, an extension is limited to storing 5MB of data using this API unless it has the
"unlimitedStorage"permission. - In Firefox, the amount of data an extension can store is subjected to the same storage limits as applied to IndexedDB databases. Extensions that intend to store more data than this limit need the "unlimitedStorage" permission. However, extensions with the "unlimitedStorage" permission may get a quota exceeded error when the disk space used by storage exceeds the global limit.
When the extension is uninstalled, its associated local storage is cleared.
Also in Firefox, you can prevent the browser from clearing local storage on uninstall by visiting about:config and setting the following two browser preferences to true: "keepUuidOnUninstall" and "keepStorageOnUninstall". This feature is provided to help developers test their extensions. Extensions themselves are not able to change these preferences.
Although this API is similar to Window.localStorage it is recommended that you don't use Window.localStorage in extension code. Firefox will clear data stored by extensions using the localStorage API in various scenarios where users clear their browsing history and data for privacy reasons, while data saved using the storage.local API will be correctly persisted in these scenarios.
