From c9f7d6771a1086df1f67c0665e27c5c47c8208e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Bruhin <git@the-compiler.org>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 01:11:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Enable persistent webkit storage

---
 qutebrowser/app.py                | 2 +-
 qutebrowser/config/websettings.py | 9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qutebrowser/app.py b/qutebrowser/app.py
index c22852963..c231084ff 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/app.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/app.py
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ class QuteBrowser(QApplication):
             # We didn't really initialize much so far, so we just quit hard.
             sys.exit(1)
         self.config = config.instance
-        websettings.init()
+        websettings.init(self._dirs.user_cache_dir)
 
         self.commandmanager = CommandManager()
         self.searchmanager = SearchManager()
diff --git a/qutebrowser/config/websettings.py b/qutebrowser/config/websettings.py
index ce2ea4895..c94b98a1b 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/config/websettings.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/config/websettings.py
@@ -101,9 +101,14 @@ STATIC_SETTERS = {
 settings = None
 
 
-def init():
-    """Initialize the global QWebSettings."""
+def init(cachedir):
+    """Initialize the global QWebSettings.
+
+    Args:
+        cachedir: Directory to save cache files in.
+    """
     global settings
+    QWebSettings.enablePersistentStorage(cachedir)
     settings = QWebSettings.globalSettings()
     for name, item in ATTRIBUTES.items():
         settings.setAttribute(item, config.get('webkit', name))