990306 - SimplePush Notifications - Addon support

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: API, defect)

Description

[Jared Jacobs]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.152 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

It would be fantastic for Firefox addons to be able to receive push notifications for their users without having to maintain persistent connections to their respective servers.

Installed applications on Firefox OS have this capability already via the SimplePush API.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/SimplePush‎

It seems that web pages will soon be getting this capability (issue 857464).

Any addon that supports instant messaging or any kind of data synchronization could benefit from this capability as well. Pushbullet is one example of such an addon:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pushbullet/
I’m sure there are many.



Expected results:

Note that Google Chrome exposes this capability to extensions via its chrome.pushMessaging API.
http://developer.chrome.com/apps/pushMessaging

Comment 1

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks for filing this.  Due to resource constraints we are closing bugs which we won't realistically be able to fix.  If you have a patch that applies to this bug please reopen.

For more info see http://micropipes.com/blog/2014/09/24/the-great-add-on-bug-triage/