Desktop renderer origin change breaks local storage
Cluster 130635 · apps/desktop. Data as of
1 open item. Fix merged in #130852 on 1 Oct 2026. Check it covers your case.
The short answer
- Known?
- Yes. 4 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #130852. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
- Tracker
- The maintainers' tracker marks this
unresolved. That is separate from the fix event. - Still open
- 0 issues and 1 PR.
These items concern a desktop app change that moved the renderer from a file:// origin to an HTTP localhost origin, causing localStorage and other renderer-persisted settings to reset. The group covers the bug report, attempted fixes, and a revert related to preserving storage across this origin migration.
Open issues0
Open PRs1
- PR#130644fix(desktop): preserve renderer storage across origin migration
Fixes on record
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#130852 revert: Desktop connects to remote backends and keeps its settings again (reverts #127201, #130015, #128552)
files:
apps/desktop/electron/embed-referer.test.ts,apps/desktop/electron/embed-referer.ts,apps/desktop/electron/main.ts,apps/desktop/electron/remote-ws-headers.ts,apps/desktop/electron/renderer-server.test.ts,apps/desktop/electron/renderer-server.ts,apps/desktop/electron/renderer-url.test.ts,apps/desktop/electron/renderer-url.ts,apps/desktop/src/app/chat/close-tab.test.ts,apps/desktop/src/app/chat/preview-tile.test.ts,apps/desktop/src/app/chat/preview-tile.tsx,apps/desktop/src/app/model-picker-overlay.test.tsx,apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-session-actions/index.ts,apps/desktop/src/app/shell/hooks/use-statusbar-items.test.tsx,apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/embeds/embed-consent.tsx,apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/embeds/providers/detect.test.ts,apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/embeds/providers/types.ts,apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/embeds/providers/youtube.ts,apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/embeds/url-embed.tsx,apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/embeds/youtube-embed.test.ts(+19 more)
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: done elsewhere 1
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#130646 fix(desktop): migrate renderer storage across origin change · done elsewhere →
03477e9,#130852,#127201
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#130635Desktop: renderer moved from `file://` to `http://127.0.0.1:47891` with no localStorage migration — the glass book (and 35 other renderer-persisted settings) reset on update
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- Subsystem
- apps/desktop
- Merged PRs
- #130852
- Closed issues
- 1
- Attempts
- 1 PR closed without merging
- Fix link checked
- 1 Oct 2026