Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to read the 'sessionStorage' property from 'Window

[joker-777]

Hi, since we upgraded to 7.4.0 we are seeing this error in our Javascript tracking system.

Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to read the 'sessionStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document.

It happens mostly on android phones with Chrome and is raised in this line which was introduced in this commit.
Here it tries to access sessionStorage even though we never enabled it.

[jooohhn]

Thanks for reporting, will take a look

[jooohhn]

Bug was likely introduced in that commit. Could you post what options you're using when initing Amplitude? (if you're using non-defaults)

[joker-777]

Hi, thanks for your response. Here is how we set up algolia

amplitude.getInstance().init(amplitude_token, null, {
  includeUtm: true,
  includeReferrer: true,
  includeGclid: true,
  trackingOptions: {
    ip_address: false
  }
});

[joker-777]

@jooohhn How is the progress here?

[jooohhn]

@joker-777 looking to have a fix in by end of this week

[joker-777]

That would be amazing

[jooohhn]

@joker-777 could you share the stack trace of the error? I believe I reproduced the the bug but it'd be good to crosscheck with yours

[joker-777]

@jooohhn Here is the stack track

SecurityError: Failed to read the 'sessionStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document.
File "node_modules/amplitude-js/amplitude.umd.js" line 1394 col 24 in value
str = window.sessionStorage && window.sessionStorage.getItem(this.storageKey);
File "node_modules/amplitude-js/amplitude.umd.js" line 3876 col 42 in _loadCookieData
var props = scope._metadataStorage.load();
File "node_modules/amplitude-js/amplitude.umd.js" line 4559 col 7 in [anonymous]
_loadCookieData(this); // reload cookie before each log event to sync event meta-data betwe...
File "node_modules/amplitude-js/amplitude.umd.js" line 4778 col 17 in [anonymous]
return this._logEvent(eventType, eventProperties, null, null, null, null, timestamp, opt_call...
File "node_modules/amplitude-js/amplitude.umd.js" line 4729 col 17 in [anonymous]
return this.logEventWithTimestamp(eventType, eventProperties, null, opt_callback);