900932 - Firefox notifications should integrate with other apps' notifications

Status: NEW

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[André Reinald]

Presently, our notifications don't mix up well with the rest of the system's ones. Before 10.8 there was no Mac OS API to handle notifications, and an alternative third party open source extension called Growl used to fill that role.

Recent versions of Growl don't need to install an extension, and use native Mac notifications behind the scenes instead of their own when running on 10.8 and later.

I understood that FF was using Growl up to some point, and that support for it has been dropped.

Growl and 10.8 notifications can't present the rich content HTML5 notifications can, but we have to find a tradeoff between looking as a Mac application, and being fully compliant with the HTML5 spec.

Comment 1

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

From bug 897010 comment #20 and bug 897010 comment #21:

Out of curiosity, I looked up the history of Growl support in our tree ... and found that it was added back on mozilla-central after it was removed, then removed again!  See bug 777409 (where it was removed the first time) and bug 827979 (where it was added back).  I still haven't found the bug where it was removed again ... if there even was a bug for that :-(  I'll keep looking.

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Growl support was removed again in bug 782211.  See bug 782211 comment #13.