Libnotify Notifications in Chrome

Properly support libnotify notifications in Chrome.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2022-09-03

By: Nick Mossie

Users: 356

Rating: 1.81 (21)

Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2014-06-23)

Creation date: 2014-06-23

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

notifications
nativeMessaging
tabs
http://*/*
https://*/*

Size: 22.76K

URLs: Website

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This is an extension for Chrome in Linux. It won't do anything for Windows users.

This catches Chrome Webkit notifications from webpages and displays those notifications in native Libnotify (xfce4-notify, notify-osd, etc) popups instead.

This is rewrite of Linux Native Notification for Chrome, which is based on Chromify-OSD. Both of those solutions only work with selected libnotify servers. This aims to work with everything based on libnotify. A list of servers that should work is here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_notifications

Also, the previous solutions are based on NPAPI, which is being phased out. This is a Native Messaging implementation, so you also need to install the "host" portion of this software, which is written in C. You can download that zip file here.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzOewlVTs_tpdTNFckZKeG5HRE0/edit?usp=sharing

Extract it and run the install.sh. Hopefully this can be automated in the future.

TODO:

make it work with gmail :(

User reviews

Doesn't work (I'm on Arch)

François Robichet, 2017-01-24

Broken and outdated. The worst thing about this extension is that it prevents the desktop notifications from showing altogether.

David Strobach, 2016-11-04

Needs updating. The extension works fine once you fix it on your own. See: http://askubuntu.com/questions/465727/activate-chrome-native-notifications for help.

Aaron Papin, 2016-10-23

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Risk impact

Libnotify Notifications in Chrome requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.