philc / philc/vimium

Options not saving in Firefox: QuotaExceededError

Open
#4,479 0 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
27k
Forks
2.6k
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

Hello, thank you for your work!

When trying to save the settings in Firefox, I get this error in the console:

Uncaught (in promise) Error: QuotaExceededError: storage.sync API call exceeded its quota limitations.

https://github.com/philc/vimium/blob/445486e20f410fcfbbe8b0a186242bc9f4368511/pages/options.js#L152

Unfortunately I'm not familiar with extension programming to be able to help more, but with a quick search I only found that more extensions have the same issue (and this StackOverflow answer :( )

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with pages/options.js around line 152 and reproduce saving settings in Firefox. Inspect how the storage.sync API call is made and compare the observed QuotaExceededError with the linked Stack Overflow discussion. Done means the options can be saved without this error under the reported Firefox conditions.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
48/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.