Firefox and cookie micromanagement

Posted Mar 24, 2016 21:38 UTC (Thu) by MattJD (subscriber, #91390)
In reply to: Firefox and cookie micromanagement by malor
Parent article: Firefox and cookie micromanagement

> It tends to accumulate a lot more data than Firefox does, especially site local storage, which I think is a Chrome-specific, cookie-like function.

Local storage is now a standard and most browsers implement it, including Firefox (source: http://caniuse.com/#feat=namevalue-storage ). It does act like cookies, but AFAIU it is more flexible to developers if you want to store large amounts of data in the browser. It also doesn't have the same recognition as cookies, so it isn't as likely to be blocked.

I don't know what the rules are on third-party storage like third-party cookies, so I don't know how well it can be used for tracking across sites. Inside a site, it definitely can.