With New Firefox, Your Favourite Websites Can Now Send You Notifications

The Google Chrome web browser has had the ability to send push notifications for a while and now Firefox users will be getting the same ability.

At the same time, Mozilla released Firefox 44 overnight, with the newest addition being support for H.264 videos.

Mozilla’s move to drop RC4 support in the updated Firefox 44 version is in line with a September 2015 pledge by browser makers that RC4 support will be deprecated in 2016 — an action prompted by research which revealed that RC4 was easily cracked. Mozilla says that it is also enhancing encryption on payloads. A few months ago, new strikes persuaded the online engineers to avoid the integration of RC4 in TLS.

Google added the same functionality to Chrome in April with version 42. It will allow websites to send push notifications to users even when they don’t have the website open, as long as they agree to receive push notifications.

Firefox 44 brings support for Web Push which delivers push notifications from websites even if users don’t have that website open, only the browser needs to be running for this to work.

“This is super useful for websites like email, weather, social networks and shopping, which you might check frequently for updates”, the company wrote in a blog post.

You can set your notices from the browser’s Control Center after clicking a green lock symbol on the left of its address bar.

While this improved push notifications support is clearly the most visible feature in this release, the team also made a number of other changes to the browser – and especially to the built-in developer tools.