Chrome extensions get access to desktop notification APIs

By on May 28, 2010 at 5:49 PM
Software May 28, 2010

Chromium Notifications

How about some added browser functionality for those Chrome lovers out there. The Chromium Blog has announced that as of Chrome 5, Chrome extensions will have access to the desktop notification API. As the article explains:

Many Chrome extensions use browser actions as a notification area. Notifications can be very valuable to users, but there’s only so much a developer can do with an icon’s worth of pixels.

As of Chrome 5, we’re happy to announce that notifications are also available to extension developers.

When notifications are used from an extension, there are no permission prompts or infobar warnings. The experience is seamless – it just works.

Chrome 5 is currently available to all Windows, Linux, and Mac users. How about it Chrome users…you like?

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  • http://www.macewan.org Robert MacEwan

    Gmail notify currently only Winders and Linux. Mac’n'growl no where to be seen.

  • http://www.brianward.com Brian Ward

    Loving it! I just wish GMail would get rid of conversations, I would think it is the cat’s meow.

  • http://www.jonnylam.com Jonathan

    I’ve been getting desktop notifications for Google Mail Checker Plus for a while now. Is this different?

    • Ryan Sharp

      Yeah, before extension could do this but needed access to the current tab with extended permissions. It was a pointless requirement and looked very suspicious to some people that a simple notification extension needed unlimited permissions when logically they shouldn’t require any at all.

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