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Stop Firefox-generated notifications?

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I felt forced to update bc of the recent RCE. And what do you know, all sorts of unnecessary crud has been added that I've now had to turn off. But I can't figure out how to turn off the Firefox-specific notifications. NOT WEBSITES. There's nothing in settings under "notification" or "tracker" and it's wholly unnecessary. There is 0 need to to pop a flashing orange desktop notification for tracker statistics. Like this is not important info, nor is it a crisis that requires a notification.

I felt forced to update bc of the recent RCE. And what do you know, all sorts of unnecessary crud has been added that I've now had to turn off. But I can't figure out how to turn off the Firefox-specific notifications. NOT WEBSITES. There's nothing in settings under "notification" or "tracker" and it's wholly unnecessary. There is 0 need to to pop a flashing orange desktop notification for tracker statistics. Like this is not important info, nor is it a crisis that requires a notification.
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This is what comes up for Firefox notifications FAQ.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/push-notifications-firefox

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tt888 said

I felt forced to update bc of the recent RCE. And what do you know, all sorts of unnecessary crud has been added that I've now had to turn off. But I can't figure out how to turn off the Firefox-specific notifications. NOT WEBSITES. There's nothing in settings under "notification" or "tracker" and it's wholly unnecessary. There is 0 need to to pop a flashing orange desktop notification for tracker statistics. Like this is not important info, nor is it a crisis that requires a notification.

There may be a preference in about:config to disable this, not sure.

This is due to the enhanced tracking protection as you can what was blocked by going to about:protections in Firefox.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop

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markwarner22 said

This is what comes up for Firefox notifications FAQ. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/push-notifications-firefox

Completely unrelated as this message was related to the enhanced tracking protection feature.

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James said

tt888 said

I felt forced to update bc of the recent RCE. And what do you know, all sorts of unnecessary crud has been added that I've now had to turn off. But I can't figure out how to turn off the Firefox-specific notifications. NOT WEBSITES. There's nothing in settings under "notification" or "tracker" and it's wholly unnecessary. There is 0 need to to pop a flashing orange desktop notification for tracker statistics. Like this is not important info, nor is it a crisis that requires a notification.

There may be a preference in about:config to disable this, not sure.

This is due to the enhanced tracking protection as you can what was blocked by going to about:protections in Firefox.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop

Thanks, I will have to go digging.

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