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by solox3 4971 days ago
That is the default, not the limit. In all modern browsers, this limit is either 5MB, or set to prompt when the web page requests any larger.
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For localStorage? I can't find any information on that. I know this is the case for Web SQL databases. But as far as I understand, localStorage is hard coded with no chance of expansion. To make matters worse, localStorage uses strings, effectively cutting your storage a good deal.