What with these HUGE cookie file sizes?
I took a look today and I had 237 MB in cookies! This was after clearing the cache of all files. I've only had this (new) machine a couple months.
Short version: Sites have "cookies" from 200kb to as much as 34MB! For many of the sites over 3MB I have no account and have visited them only briefly.
To be clear, I don't care about the space being used. It's trivial. But what the heck is FFox storing and calling it "cookies"? Last I checked, a site was still limited to 4K size cookies and perhaps 50 per domain. So how are we getting to MB+ sized "cookies" per site? Again, the cache was cleared, so what's left aside from trivial cookie files of <4KB?
Desktop; Windows 11; Firefox 139.0.4 64 bit
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Ah, I see. After some research, I learned about the concept of "DOM Storage".
You'd think that something that significant would have received much more publicity and pushback from the public... if anyone knew about it. Cookies themselves were (and still are) considered an imposition by many. This is beyond that by astronomical amounts.
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The size you're citing isn't just cookies; it's the sum of all local data stored for a website. According to the MDN Web Docs, the default (best effort) limit of storage for a site is either 10% of the total disk size or 10 GiB, whichever is less.
As for why websites store that much data on your computer, that's a valid question. However, it's a philosophical question beyond the scope of Firefox support.
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Ah, I see. After some research, I learned about the concept of "DOM Storage".
You'd think that something that significant would have received much more publicity and pushback from the public... if anyone knew about it. Cookies themselves were (and still are) considered an imposition by many. This is beyond that by astronomical amounts.
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