diff --git a/dom/indexedDB/OpenDatabaseHelper.cpp b/dom/indexedDB/OpenDatabaseHelper.cpp
index 8d62eb894e34..f4064e773c23 100644
--- a/dom/indexedDB/OpenDatabaseHelper.cpp
+++ b/dom/indexedDB/OpenDatabaseHelper.cpp
@@ -63,11 +63,36 @@ MakeSchemaVersion(uint32_t aMajorSchemaVersion,
 const int32_t kSQLiteSchemaVersion = int32_t((kMajorSchemaVersion << 4) +
                                              kMinorSchemaVersion);
 
+const uint32_t kGoldenRatioU32 = 0x9E3779B9U;
+
+inline
+uint32_t
+RotateBitsLeft32(uint32_t value, uint8_t bits)
+{
+  MOZ_ASSERT(bits < 32);
+  return (value << bits) | (value >> (32 - bits));
+}
+
+inline
+uint32_t
+HashName(const nsAString& aName)
+{
+  const char16_t* str = aName.BeginReading();
+  size_t length = aName.Length();
+
+  uint32_t hash = 0;
+  for (size_t i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+    hash = kGoldenRatioU32 * (RotateBitsLeft32(hash, 5) ^ str[i]);
+  }
+
+  return hash;
+}
+
 nsresult
 GetDatabaseFilename(const nsAString& aName,
                     nsAString& aDatabaseFilename)
 {
-  aDatabaseFilename.AppendInt(HashString(aName));
+  aDatabaseFilename.AppendInt(HashName(aName));
 
   nsCString escapedName;
   if (!NS_Escape(NS_ConvertUTF16toUTF8(aName), escapedName, url_XPAlphas)) {