Notifications on Google Chrome are basically dead … well, at least those generated by the browser itself. Some time ago, the company made an effort to connect its notifications to the user’s OS-bound notification center, and depending on how you set it up (or not), it can be annoying to handle. Fortunately, there is a way around the nonsense!
What kind of nonsense am I talking about? Well, we can only attest to the use of Windows, but in the first place it’s the elongated jingles. Second, each notification appears one at a time, which is great if you have compiled an entire stack of it. And then there’s another weird hit box where the notification takes up more space than it looks (photo above).
What Microsoft really needs to do is solve these problems. But until that happens, you can switch the notifications back to Chrome by opening a window and entering chrome: // flags in the address bar. You can also assign the same customization to your browser on Chromium by replacing “chrome” chrome: // flags with the name of your alternative.
Benefits only go straight to chrome: // flags / # enable-native-notifications
The specific flag you want to search for in the extensive list is “Enable native notifications” to disable it.
It’s about that! Chrome will once again be responsible for delivering notifications from your most important and favorite sites.
There are doubts about the longevity of this solution after the flag was turned off for Chrome’s M85 release, but it was brought back in M86 and should be at least M90.
