Is “localStorage” in Firefox only working when the page is online?

Question

So I\'m toying around with HTML 5 and the localStorage and I\'m noticing that my values only get stored when I run the page in Firefox on the local host (i.e. http://127.0.0

Answer 1

It seems a bug: Bug 507361 - localStorage doesn't work in file:/// documents
Hope is fixed soon!

2011-09-13: Bug fixed, implemented in 'Mozilla8'. I tested this with Firefox 8 and it works now.