I was trying to make Persona (the privacy-respecting decentralised login system -- https://login.persona.org) work with Icecat and ran into two issues:
1. its JavaScript is disabled by LibreJS 2. dom.storage (i.e. localStorage and sessionStorage) is disabled by default For #1, I have started patching Persona to make the licensing info conform to what LibreJS expects. This should resolve that problem. However, #2 is a blocker. May I ask why that feature is disabled? I mean, that's like disabling cookies entirely. It breaks the web in a big way. In the case of Persona, localStorage is used to store private keys so that we can do the crypto client-side and not have to trust the server with these keys. It is a necessary component of our privacy guarantees. I can understand that localStorage, like cookies, is a way to store tracking data in the browser, which is undesirable. However, clearing cookies also clears localStorage, so privacy-conscious users who set their browser to automatically clear cookies when the browser shuts down will be fine. There's essentially no difference between allowing cookies and allowing local storage from a privacy point of view. Francois -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
