How to view delete local storage in Firefox

Question

In Google Chrome there is an easy way to see what s in local storage as well as modify or delete it after inspecting it   Is there a way to do the same in Firefox

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As  localStorage  is just another object  you can  create  view  and edit it in the  Console   Simply enter  localStorage  as a command and press enter  it ll display a string containing the key-value pairs of localStorage  Tip  Click on that string for formatted output  i e  to display each key-value pair in each line

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From Firefox 34 onwards you now have an option for Storage Inspector  which you can enable it from developer tools settings  Once there  you can enable the Storage options under Default Firefox Developer tools  Updated 27-3-16  Firefox 48 0a1 now supports Cookies editing   Updated 3-4-16  Firefox 48 0a1 now supports localStorage and sessionStorage editing   Updated 02-08-16  Firefox 48  stable release  and onward supports editing of all storage types  except IndexedDB

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Try this  it works for me   var storage   null  setLocalStorage     function setLocalStorage         storage    localStorage   localStorage    window content localStorage   window content localStorage   null         try           storage setItem  test key    test value     verify if posible saving in the current storage           catch  e            if  e name     NS ERROR FILE CORRUPTED                 storage   sessionStorage   sessionStorage   null   set the new storage if fails

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You can delete localStorage items one by one using Firebug  a useful web development extension  or Firefox s developer console   Firebug Method   Open Firebug  click on the tiny bug icon in the lower right  Go to the DOM tab Scroll down to and expand localStorage Right-click the item you wish to delete and press Delete Property   Developer Console Method  You can enter these commands into the console   localStorage     click arrow to view object s properties localStorage removeItem  foo     localStorage clear       remove all of localStorage s properties   Storage Inspector Method  Firefox now has a built in storage inspector  which you may need to manually enable  See rahilwazir s answer below

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To inspect your localStorage items you may type console log localStorage   in your javascript console  firebug for example or in new FF versions the shipped js console    You can use this line of Code to get rid of the browsers localStorage contents  Just execute it in your javascript console   localStorage clear

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I could not use localStorage directly in the Firefox  v27  console  I got the error       Exception     Component is not available   nsresult   0x80040111  NS ERROR NOT AVAILABLE    location   JS frame    debugger eval code        line 1   data  no    What worked was    window content localStorage

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There is now a great plugin for Firebug that clones this nice feature in chrome  Check out   https   addons mozilla org en-US firefox addon firestorage-plus   It s developed by Nick Belhomme and updated regularly

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