1519781 - Add setting to stop showing ‘Will you allow [website_url] to send notifications?’

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Notifications and Alerts, enhancement)

Description

[tukusejssirs]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open a website that is programmed to send notifications (e.g. facebook.com).

Actual results:

These websites always ask me if I want to allow the notifications sending to my device.

Btw, there are two types of these Firefox notifications (the little windows/modals that ask me to allow / not allow the notifications sending).

And this would happen on (at least) any desktop (Windows/Linux, probably on macOS, too) or Android devices. On Android devices, there is only one type of Firefox notification (the white one, the one that does not change according to the Firefox theme).

Expected results:

I’d like to see a setting that would disable altogether these notifications, as (1) I never allow them, (2) they get in my view.

Also, this setting should be synced via Firefox Sync.

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

Is this what you're looking for?

1. In the address bar, enter about:preferences#privacy
2. Scroll down to the Permissions category.
3. Next to Notifications, click the Settings… button.
4. Check Block new requests asking to allow notifications.

Comment 2

[Lina Butler (ex-Mozilla)]

To sync that setting, you can add a new Boolean pref in about:config, called services.sync.prefs.sync.permissions.default.desktop-notification and set to true. Bug 1519962 covers syncing these overrides by default.

Comment 3

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

What else is left to do in this bug then? :)

Comment 4

[tukusejssirs]

I missed both of these settings. They work as expected. Thank you. Sorry for opening this issue. :)

Comment 5

[Lina Butler (ex-Mozilla)]

Thanks for getting back to us!