Issue 48159 in chromium: storage event not firing

[chro...@googlecode.com]

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Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 Area-Undefined

New issue 48159 by her...@google.com: storage event not firing
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48159

Chrome Version : 5.0.375.86 (Mac OS X)
URLs (if applicable) :
Other browsers tested:
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
Safari 5: FAIL
Firefox 3.x: OK
IE 7:
IE 8:

What steps will reproduce the problem?

window.addEventListener("storage", alert, true);
localStorage['hello'] = 'world';
localStorage.clear();

What is the expected result?

alert box with message [object StorageEvent]

What happens instead?

Nothing

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possible.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #1 on issue 48159 by glory.leung: storage event not firing
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48159

uTest
Repro in dev build: y
Repro in stable build: y
Accurate Steps: y
Configuration used: Stable: 5.0.375.99 Dev: 6.0.472.0 + Windows 7 x64

reproducible

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #2 on issue 48159 by imiaou: storage event not firing
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48159

Please fix it.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #4 on issue 48159 by p...@4ps4.com: storage event not firing
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48159

I'm on Chrome 10.0.634.0 and I'm seeing sporadic storageEvents firing.

Here's a test page
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jhs/test/html5-storage-events.html