Firefox Can Now Send Push Notifications Just Like Safari And Chrome

The modern version of Mozilla's Firefox browser carries a trick up its sleeve that will save you time and battery: force notifications. This means, using your permission, that websites can send messages that appear on your desktop — even if you don't have that site open.

Firefox Can Now Send Push Notifications Just Like Safari And Chrome

This lets you close unnecessary dividers, saving you processing electrical power and battery life, and could be especially useful for the kind of Facebook, Twitter, and Googlemail, where you want to watch incoming messages. Mozilla says that much like geolocation and webcams, users will specifically should grant access to websites that are looking for to send them announcements, and can revoke them whenever they want.

Firefox Can Now Send Push Notifications Just Like Safari And Chrome

Push notifications are already readily available for Chrome and Safari, despite the fact that using different technology. Both Firefox and Chrome are choosing the "web push" project and associated API developed by the W3C (Worldwide World wide web Consortium), while Apple uses its own Safari Push Notifications common on OS X Mavericks. Microsoft, meanwhile, says that adding service for web push to its Edge browser is "under consideration, " it doesn't look like it'll ever be around on Internet Explorer. Well, you wouldn't want announcements from beyond the serious.