One Add-on Lets Firefox Use Ubuntu Notification System

By , Published January 4, 2010

Firefox uses its own notification system for alerting users to various events. These can easily be missed on an Ubuntu system as users are used to seeing notifications appear in the top right-hand corner.
Thankfully the following Firefox add-on solves this by getting Firefox to use the Ubuntu notification system. No-more double-downloading because you missed the pop-up!

Install
All you have to do is add the following extension and restart. Firefox will, from now on, use the system notification system.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9622

Quite why this extension isn’t installed by default in Ubuntu i don’t know!

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • alex

    Nice, do ya know, if there is something similar for thunderbird?

  • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

    Not new to me… Fantastic extension!!! =D

  • Yi Sun-sin

    I used it on every Firefox I have. Not only on Ubuntu, it works perfectly on systems with other notifications systems !

  • Mohan

    Been using this one since Notify-osd was introduced and love it. Make Firefox feel more integrated into Ubuntu.

  • wingnut

    Cool! Let’s hope they ship it natively on Lucid!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=696766371 Anonymous

    This is really nice and professional, should be a default addon on the Ubuntu CD

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Costas-Kokke/100000469616450 Costas Kokke

    Wauw, this should indeed be default. Wauw. Great add-on.

  • Uri