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Updated by koszko almost 2 years ago

In all WebExtension guides the `storage` API was presented as **the** thing to use. I thought all other storage mechanisms are either unavailable or non-persistent when used from WebExtension. Now, after almost a year of fighting the `storage.local`, `storage`, I realized IndexedDB is also available and will remain so even in ManifestV3. It supports transactions, so no routing of storage writes/reads to background scripts will be needed :)

The only thing IndexedDB lacks is observability. `storage.local` might still be useful to notify different contexts of changes in the db. It would then be used in parallel with IndexedDB and we'd reset it on every browser startup.

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