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Asked: 2026-05-23T13:34:00+00:00

A site I’m building uses localstorage with a fallback to php sessions. How can

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A site I’m building uses localstorage with a fallback to php sessions.

How can I test my website in a localstorage free environment without downgrading Firefox, Internet Explorer 8, Chrome or Safari? So I’m probably looking for an add-on for one of these browsers?

I’ve tried ie7 mode in ie8 – no joy 🙁

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    For Firefox:

    Dom.storage.enabled

    The Web Applications 1.0 specification defines a mechanism allowing web pages to store information with a web browser (similar to cookies) called “client-side session and persistent storage.” Although use of session storage is subject to a user’s cookie preferences, this preference allows it to be disabled entirely.

    For Chrome:

    Chrome/Chromium – disable HTML5 LocalStorage and Databases for all webpages /or ask user

    While some resources on the Internet claims that Chrome’s cookie blocking does not also block LocalStorage, I just ran a quick test and discovered that it does actually block LocalStorage, (at least in Chrome 12, the current beta version).

    For IE:

    Internet Explorer

    Select “Tools” -> “Internet Options” -> “General” -> check “Delete browsing history on exit”, click on “Delete”, check “Cookies”, click on “Delete” once more and restart your browser afterwards.

    Not really sure about Safari but I imagine it is similar to Chrome.

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