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Google Is Removing the Desktop Notification Center From Chrome (chromium.org)

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-don't-need-to-know-things-when-they-happen dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Google today announced it is removing the notification center from Chrome for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The reason the company is giving for the change is simple: "In practice, few users visit the notification center." The notification center in Chrome OS will remain. Google said this change will take effect for Windows, Mac, and Linux users "in the upcoming release." To be clear, this is not in reference to yesterday's Chrome 46 launch — the notification center is still there. We thus expect that the notification center will thus be removed in Chrome 47, which is slated to arrive in about six weeks.

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  1. Good by sexconker · · Score: 4, Informative

    The "notifications center" is the fucking shit that lives in the system tray 24/7 and spams you when shittysite.com wants to send you a notification, even after you've closed the tab. Websites pushing notifications that you didn't send a GET request for is an absolutely horrid idea, and I hope this is an indication that Google is giving up on it.

  2. Re:I'm using Google Chrome now by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Informative

    Settings > Show Advanced Settings > Privacy > Content Settings > Notifications.

    Pretty much I went through that whole Content Settings section and selected "oh hell no" on day one of having Chrome.

    Let a web page give push notifications to my desktop? No, hell no, oh god no, please fuck off and go away no. Just no.

    I just want a damned web browser. That's it.

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    Lost at C:>. Found at C.
  3. W3C Push API by Njovich · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is mostly a change in API, Google is now pushing for the W3C Push API to become the standard for web push notifications. This (amongst other things) allows developers to use the same much more commonly used push code used for Android notifications (Google Cloud Messaging) to send messages to web browsers. As Google is trying to push this API, having it's own internal (and hardly used) competitor doesn't make sense.

  4. Doesn't Affect Web Notifications by Scorpinox · · Score: 3, Informative

    Note that the chrome rich notification center is different from the standardized Web Notifications API https://developer.mozilla.org/...

    This story kind of freaked me out at first because I thought it was referring to that Web Notifications API, which I rely on heavily for web based chat and email apps.