session-storage

Although the size of localStorage has been addressed in detail and there is a online test for it , I was wondering what the maximum size of sessionStorage is for the common browsers? According to this site , Firefox’s and Safari’s storage limit is 5MB per domain, Internet Explorer’s limit is 10 MB per domain. However, according to this site which tests your web browser local storage capabilities , on my machine: Browser LocalStorage SessionStorage ------- ------------ -------------- Chrome 5M 5M Firefox 5M Unlimited IE11 5M 5M Also, note the handy chart at the bottom of the page. Mobile

It seems that for sessionStorage , it works differently on Chrome's Incognito Mode vs Safari's Private Browsing and Firefox's Private Window? I can find something on http://www.webdirections.org/blog/webstorage-persistent-client-side-data-storage/ but it doesn't say that Safari's Private Browsing will throw an exception. The following is how I opened "Private Browsing": On Safari on Mac, click "Safari -> Private Browsing" on the menu bar On Chrome, use "File -> New Incognito Window" On Firefox, use "File -> New Private Window" and on Safari, sessionStorage does not work, and if I do the

SessionStorage and LocalStorage allows to save key/value pairs in a web browser. The value must be a string, and save js objects is not trivial. var user = {'name':'John'}; sessionStorage.setItem('user', user); var obj = sessionStorage.user; // obj='[object Object]' Not an object Nowadays, you can avoid this limitation by serializing objects to JSON, and then deserializing them to recover the objects. But the Storage API always pass through the setItem and getItem methods. sessionStorage.setItem('user', JSON.stringify(user)); var obj = JSON.parse(sessionStorage.getItem('user')); // An object