Contentful: How to fix the "local storage" issue in Google Chrome

Owned by Damian Rozmiarkowski
Aug 04, 2023

Introduction

In Google Chrome, you might encounter a problem with displaying the XTM Connect plugin from content level or accessing it from the Apps section. In both cases, a blank page is displayed and the error shown below occurs in DevTools (click here to learn more on how to use the browser's developer tools):

How to fix the issue

  1. To fix the issue, you need to change the cookies settings in your Google Chrome browser. To do this, go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Browser privacy → Cookies and Site Data → General settings. Alternatively, you can just copy the following chrome://settings/cookies link and paste it into the address bar.

  1. Make sure that the Allow all cookies option is ENABLED and the Block third-party cookies option is DISABLED.

  2. Google Chrome will save the changes automatically. To learn more about the error itself, visit this link: https://growthdot.com/help/failed-to-read-the-localstorage-property-from-window-error/.