kiranoot said:
The expectation of all sites is that if cookies work and the local storage API exists and works, that it should be able to store things in local storage. The site uses local storage because cookies get sent to the server every time, but local storage doesn't. It's a much better way to deal with local settings for users without making all requests larger and more cumbersome. If you start trying to disable it, you'll break many many things.
Yeah, it runs into same issues as disabling JS by default. Was trying to find a workaround to make it not so A) broken and disabled when you normally want it B) working a little too well on specific sites XD
I'm glad I tried that new installation to narrow it down - so happy after that frustrationg! Double-checking dom.storage.enabled and dom.storage.default_quota (Mozilla) settings and switching browsers are fixes. I still haven't figured out what breaks the mobile ones but it's almost certainly a similar missing(or disabled) feature.