The website “https://mail.google.com” is requesting 10 MB of disk space to store

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The website “https://mail.google.com” is requesting 10 MB of disk space to store

suddenly safari keeps on requesting :

The website “https://mail.google.com” is requesting 10 MB of disk space to store for my gmail account

I don't allow but it is persitant everytime a new email comes in via iGoogle or Gmail

I have scanned the forums but people with the same problem don't seem to be able to get an answer

As I have discovered Gmail does not need to or does store any data on the local hard drive.

The problem is not happening in Firefox

anyone out there got any suggestions or do I need to drop Safari and go over to Firefox

😕

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Aug 10, 2011 1:15 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 10, 2011 1:18 AM in response to thebeachdwelleraus

just found the solution on another forum, it's to do with the data storage Safari is set to ( default 5MB) when visiting a HTML5 site. just increased the amount in preferences and problem seems to have gone away.

Pity apple couldn't have posted something about this sooner !!😮

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Answer 2

Feb 14, 2012 5:03 PM in response to thebeachdwelleraus

I bumped into this problem and solved it today.

Apple Safari allows each web site 5M local storage space without asking. So when Safari prompted you to allow google gmail for more space, it certainly is because google code requesting more. (Just think why it is always Gmail ask for it and not others?)

I found that I just need to clean up current local storage and Safari will not prompt me for more space for gmail any more. Do this in Safari:

Click: Safari->Preference->Privacy->Details

You will be amazed by how many web sites store their data in your Mac.

Next, select "Remove all" and then close all the Sarari windows. Then do a restart. And you will not be prompted any more after restart.

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Answer 3

aztcqn

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Oct 4, 2013 2:46 PM in response to ecvoyager

Thanks for the solution. I think it worked.....so far.

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