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Firefox 44 Arrives With Push Notifications (mozilla.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox 44 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Notable additions to the browser include push notifications, the removal of RC4 encryption, and new powerful developer tools. Mozilla made three promises for push notifications: "1. To prevent cross-site correlations, every website receives a different, anonymous Web Push identifier for your browser. 2. To thwart eavesdropping, payloads are encrypted to a public / private keypair held only by your browser. 3. Firefox only connects to the Push Service if you have an active Web Push subscription. This could be to a website, or to a browser feature like Firefox Hello or Firefox Sync." Here are the full changelogs: Desktop and Android.
Just don't subscribe to anything -- every page requires you to grant it permission.
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
Who has a list of which configuration options I need to go into about:config and disable this time?
As buchner.johannes noted, just don't subscribe to anything, but from what I have read, set:
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Who has a list of which configuration options I need to go into about:config and disable this time?
As buchner.johannes noted, just don't subscribe to anything, but from what I have read, set:
Other candidates seem to also be:
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Its called Chrome.
Chrome has had push notifications for quite a while.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Well *don't fucking register* you fucktard.
If you haven't already, rather than messing around with settings and installing extensions, just drop it. Uninstall and don't look back. There are other browsers.
Sadly, all the "other browsers" suck just as much as Firefox, they just suck in different ways.
Web push is already easily handled through WebSockets. I wrote a couple applications that are able to handle hundreds of random notifications per second coming from a server. Works with Chrome, Firefox and even IE. Older versions of IE require a polyfill but even that works great.
That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.
Chrome already has push notifications. In both browsers a user action is required to subscribe to push notifications for a site so this can't be done behind your back.
iOS and Android have push notifications too. Hope you don't use a smartphone.