1233942 - HTML5 notification should not disappear if popup menu has opened

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1213079

(Toolkit :: Alerts Service, defect)

Comment 1

[Edwin Wong [:edwong]]

YF, can you provide steps to reproduce, screen shot/cast?

Comment 2

[YF (Yang)]

STR:
1. Open https://pdehaan.github.io/push-notification-test/, pop notification.
2. Click the gear icon in notification, got the menu.
3. Waiting at least ten seconds, the menu and notification will be automatic destroyed, user can not to prevent it.

Comment 3

[Edwin Wong [:edwong]]

:YF this is currently by design for Firefox.  The w3c spec says the push notifications should persist on screen till interacted. However, we were not able to land screen management features in time to avoid users screens to fill up with notifications. We went with the safe solution for now and didn't change that all notifications disappear after 12 seconds (On mac this can be set to persist).  We are working hard toward understanding user needs and hope to revisit this in a future version.

Comment 4

[YF (Yang)]

I don't understand the security reasons, and it is a brusque disappearance for the user thinking, there is no way to retrieve it. The notifications should be folded when filled, Notification Center of Windows 10 doing this.

I hope it can be improved as soon as possible, thank you.

Comment 5

[Lina Butler [:lina]]

This seems like a bug, separate from `requireInteraction` (bug 862395). For XUL alerts, if you click the gear to open the menu, we shouldn't close the notification until you're done. We already do this if you're hovering over the notification, but not if you open the menu and move the mouse outside the notification. I can reproduce this.

OS X has the same issue: it'll dismiss automatically, even if you click "..." to expand the menu. That's not too surprising, since we're using a private API. OS X has a notification center, though, so you can at least see the notification again.