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Bug report: Downloadable version not working on Safari due to unavailable localStorage

See original GitHub issue

Summary

The downloadable cyberchef.htm page does not load when local storage is not available. Unfortunately, Safari on Mac does not seem to support local storage for offline files. I get the following error in the JS console:

[Error] SecurityError (DOM Exception 18): The operation is insecure.
	loadLocalStorage (cyberchef.htm:101:1316857)
	setup (cyberchef.htm:101:1313376)
	e (cyberchef.htm:101:959968)

and CyberChef just remains at the loading screen and never loads. This is with regular browsing mode, not private browsing. The same downloaded file works fine in Chrome.

Possible solutions

CyberChef should load even when local storage is not available. I’m unsure if this is feasible.

Environment

Browser/OS: Safari 10.1.1 (12603.2.4) that is shipping with macOS 10.12.5 (latest)

Version: 5.12.4
Compile time: 03/08/2017 12:08:51 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/603.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.1 Safari/603.2.4

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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n1474335commented, Sep 14, 2017

@MichalStaruch Thanks for the details, I’ll prioritise this more highly.

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n1474335commented, Aug 4, 2017

Whilst Safari isn’t an officially supported browser, this does seem like something that should be fixed. LocalStorage is used to store saved recipes, user options and favourites. Fundamentally the app should still be able to function without these things. If Safari is blocking localStorage for local files, it’s possible that other browsers will make the same decision in future.

I’m re-opening this issue as I feel it’s something we should at least take a look at to see how much work it would entail. It might be a really quick fix, or it might be impractical.

Thanks for raising the issue and the detailed description of the problem.

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