From cd7d9e7dd8f7906cfefe9c60212eca354d3e0b0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zombieFox Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 12:53:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] change some words --- Local-background-image.md | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Local-background-image.md b/Local-background-image.md index 2f72b2f..d223cc6 100644 --- a/Local-background-image.md +++ b/Local-background-image.md @@ -1,13 +1,15 @@ **Uploading images to use as the Background is no longer supported.** -_This change was made in nightTab 7.0.0_ +_This change was introduced in nightTab 7.0.0_ -Using local images as the background has its benefits but also many drawbacks and issues. +Using local images as the background is useful but also has many drawbacks. -As a rule, nightTab does not store any user data on a remote database. So any image file uploaded and used as a background has to be stored on the client side in [local storage](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/localStorage) (in the browser cache). Local storage [has a size limit](https://github.com/zombieFox/nightTab/issues/93#issuecomment-679922767) (which varies between browsers) of about 5MB. +As a rule, nightTab does not store any user data on a remote database. So any image files uploaded and used as a background has to be stored on the client side in [local storage](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/localStorage) (in the browser cache). Local storage [has a size limit](https://github.com/zombieFox/nightTab/issues/93#issuecomment-679922767) (which varies between browsers) of about 5MB. Images can very easily exceed 5MB in size. Which is a problem when the same storage is used to save user settings: the layout, bookmarks and theme settings. In this scenario the browser can throw errors or prevent nightTab from functioning as expected. +Removing several MBs of image data from the local storage also means nightTab will read saved data faster resulting in reduced load times. + [Other issues with uploading images](https://github.com/zombieFox/nightTab/issues/69#issuecomment-522295606) continue to appear. Some images just fail to load. For the reasons above local image background upload controls have been dropped from the feature set.