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Firefox 44 Arrives With Push Notifications (mozilla.org)

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

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.

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  1. The Description of this is Scary by cruff · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From the push notification link describing it:

    A website registers a Service Worker with the browser. Service Workers are small JavaScript programs with super powers like intercepting network requests or running even when their parent website is closed.

    What could possibly go wrong?

  2. Re:Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Find me evidence of unwanted behavior in Chrome.

    GoogleUpdate.exe

    Also the on by default "OK Google" eavesdropping, desktop notifications and search prediction crap.

  3. Re:Great! by jopsen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    but you'll have to take their word on it

    No, you can view the source... All of it... Both client and server side.

    https://github.com/mozilla-ser...
    If I'm not mistaken... There a lot of mozilla projects, but this one seems recent.

    there needs to be a way to disable this service entirely.

    At least look up about.config before complaining, it's right in there under "dom.push.enabled".

    But really, I don't see the point...