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by fl3x 5206 days ago
This is not an issue in either Opera or Firefox. The title should probably reflect that it's limited to Chrome (and possibly other Webkit browsers + IE?).
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halefx 5206 days ago
Why is not an issue in Opera and Firefox? Do they have smaller maximum caches? Or do they notify you of the background transfers?
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fl3x 5206 days ago
I don't think either notifies you about the background transfers, but e.g. Operas default cache limit for Application Cache is ~50 MB according to http://www.opera.com/support/usingopera/operaini/.
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throwaway64 5206 days ago
the default local storage limit for Firefox is 5 megs per domain.
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fl3x 5206 days ago
Sorry for nitpicking, but I think local storage is a part of Web Storage (http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/), and not Application Cache (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/... or http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/offline.html).

I think that the Application Cache quota is not strictly connected to the local storage and session storage limits.

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ef4 5206 days ago
That's correct. Chromium has talked about unifying all these kinds of storage under one quota system, but it's not done yet.
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