1817736 - `alerts.useSystemBackend.windows.notificationserver.enabled=false` still sends native windows notifications

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Notifications and Alerts, defect)

Description

[Fabian.Kovacs]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/111.0

Steps to reproduce:

Upgraded Firefox to 111beta03 and set alerts.useSystemBackend.windows.notificationserver.enabled=false

Actual results:

I receive native windows notifications from firefox.

Expected results:

I should be receiving the old firefox notifications.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Toolkit::Notifications and Alerts' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

(In reply to Fabian.Kovacs from comment #0)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/111.0

Steps to reproduce:

Upgraded Firefox to 111beta03 and set alerts.useSystemBackend.windows.notificationserver.enabled=false

Actual results:

I receive native windows notifications from firefox.

Expected results:

I should be receiving the old firefox notifications.

This is an internal detail of alerts.useSystemBackend. Instead, set that pref to alerts.useSystemBackend=false to return to XUL notifications.