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storage
Posted by: Archer
Date: March 12, 2017 10:04AM

Hallo,

gibt es eine Moeglichkeit zu verhindern, dass K-Meleon 76 im
Profilordner storage\default Daten von besuchten Seiten ablegt?

Habe in der Config 5 Variablen mit dem Wort storage gefunden:
storage.vacuum.last
storage.vacuum.last.places.sqlite
device.storage.enabled
dom.storage.default_quota
dom.storage.enabled

Ist es eine davon?

Danke fuer euere Hilfe.

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Re: storage
Posted by: JamesD
Date: March 12, 2017 01:57PM

You can do a search of the preference entries. Look for answers from the kb.mozillazine.org. If the translation was correct and if I understood correctly then perhaps the link below is the information that you requested.


http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dom.storage.enabled

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Re: storage
Posted by: Archer
Date: March 12, 2017 06:53PM

Hallo JamesD,

danke fuer deine Antwort.
Habe die Vaiable dom.storage.enabled auf false gesetzt,
jedoch hat das leider keine Auswirkung, die Eintraege
werden dennoch angelegt.

Du kannst es selbst mal testen
geh auf eine Seite z.B. www.lenovo.com
darauf wird im Ordner storage ein Ordner http+++www.lenovo.com erstellt
dann ein Klick auf Produkte und Klick z.B. auf Notebooks
darauf wird http+++shop.lenovo.com erstellt.

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Re: storage / evercookies etc.
Posted by: siria
Date: March 12, 2017 07:36PM

kA, test:
dom.indexedDB.enabled = false
offline-apps.allow_by_default = false
offline-apps.quota.warn = 0

WHOA... scary stuff!! Ganz schön erschreckend, wie üblich:

English:
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mozillazine-forum
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2974577&hilit=storage&start=15

Wow... WTF... Mozilla considers 50 MEGABYTES to be a "small amount of data" and will store it without the user's permission even when the user has explicitly specified that they want to be told "when a website asks to store data for offline use".
(....)
1. Cookies
2. HTML5 data
3. IndexedDB data
4. Memory cache
5. Disk cache
6. Offline content and user data
7. Java storage (for users with Java installed)
8. Flash cookies (for users with Flash installed)


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Re: storage / evercookies etc.
Posted by: gordon451
Date: March 13, 2017 12:09AM


Follow that link through, and you arrive at:
offline-apps.allow_by_default;true
offline-apps.quota.warn;51200
So I just changed mine to false and 512. We'll see how that travels smiling smiley

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Re: storage / evercookies etc.
Posted by: Yogi
Date: March 13, 2017 10:28AM

@Archer

Bloß eine Frage.
Werden die Dateien hinterlegt auch wenn JavaScript deaktiviert ist?

Translation: Does it occur with scripting disabled as well?

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Re: storage / evercookies etc.
Posted by: Archer
Date: March 14, 2017 05:05PM

@Yogi

bei abgeschaltetem Javascript werden die Ordner und Dateien nicht erstellt

die zwei Zeilen von gordon451
offline-apps.allow_by_default von true nach false geändert
und
offline-apps.quota.warn von 51200 nach 512
bringen jedoch nichts

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Re: storage / evercookies etc.
Posted by: Yogi
Date: March 14, 2017 05:45PM

Als Test ändere in "about:config" die untere Einstellung und nach einen Browser-Neustart wiederhole den Versuch mit aktiviertem JavaScript.
javascript.options.asmjs = false

Translation:
A: It doesn't occur if scripting is disabled.
Y: Try as a test to change in "about:config" the below setting to false. Restart KM and see if the issue occurs with scripting enabled.
javascript.options.asmjs = false


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Re: storage / evercookies etc.
Posted by: Archer
Date: March 14, 2017 10:11PM

@Yogi
hab die Änderung gemacht, K-Meleon beendet und neu gestartet,
hat aber nichts gebracht, die Ordner und Dateien werden angelegt

Allgemein frage ich mich gerade, ob ich im K-Meleon Forum der einzige bin,
der die Version 76 nutzt und den es stört, dass man von Seiten Dateien
verpasst bekommt, ohne dies in den Einstellungen unterbinden zu können?

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Re: storage / evercookies etc.
Posted by: siria
Date: March 14, 2017 11:31PM

Und das hat auch nix genützt...?
dom.indexedDB.enabled = false

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Re: storage / evercookies etc.
Posted by: rodocop
Date: March 15, 2017 12:42AM

browser.cache.offline.capacity = 0
browser.cache.offline.enable = false
dom.indexedDB.enabled = false
dom.storage.enabled = false

But remember: some sites cannot work properly with local storage disabled!

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Re: storage / evercookies etc.
Posted by: Yogi
Date: March 15, 2017 03:31AM

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siria
Und das hat auch nix genützt...?
dom.indexedDB.enabled = false
Wahrscheinlich nicht weil Archer die Einstellungen einzeln getestet hat anstatt in Verbund wie sie Rodocop gepostet hat.

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Re: storage / evercookies etc.
Posted by: Yogi
Date: March 15, 2017 03:40AM

@Rodocop

Those settings are fine - for lenovo.com at least.
IMHO the first setting
browser.cache.offline.capacity = 0
is redundant since
browser.cache.offline.enable = false
supersedes it.

Now visit rt.com and test if some metadata gets stored despite of your settings. smiling smiley

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Re: storage / evercookies etc.
Posted by: rodocop
Date: March 15, 2017 03:42AM

browser.cache.offline.enable = false
Prevents creation (if absent) or use of folder 'Offline cache' in profile

dom.indexedDB.enabled = false
javascript.options.asmjs = false
Prevents creation (if absent) or use of folder 'storage' in profile Thanks to Yogi for second pref!
NB! Breaks functionality of some sites relying on HTML5 techs

dom.storage.enabled = false
Prevents creation (if absent) or use of file 'wepappsstore.sqlite' in profile
NB! Breaks functionality of some sites relying on flash or HTML5 techs



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 03/15/2017 03:57AM by rodocop.

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Re: storage / evercookies etc.
Posted by: rodocop
Date: March 15, 2017 03:59AM

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Yogi
Now visit rt.com and test if some metadata gets stored despite of your settings. smiling smiley

Oh, those russian hackers!

But you're right - javascript.options.asmjs = false solves this

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Re: storage / evercookies etc.
Posted by: Yogi
Date: March 15, 2017 04:18AM

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rodocop
Oh, those russian hackers!

But you're right - javascript.options.asmjs = false solves this

Not only russian hackers.
There are also other sites using that trick - among them Facebook as well, if I recall exactly.

Be aware that the above setting might have a negative impact on JS performance on some sites like Facebook.

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