Get native Ubuntu notifications working again in Firefox 3.6.6

By , Published July 1, 2010

Popular Firefox extension ‘Firefox-Notify’ – which uses native Ubuntu notifications in place of the default Firefox ones – no longer works with Firefox 3.6.6 in Ubuntu. Thankfully users  needn’t forgo native notifications for long…

It’s little known but a handy notification extension is already sat in the Ubuntu repositories for you to install – and it works with Firefox 3.6.6.

Open a terminal and enter: -
sudo apt-get install xul-ext-notify 


Voilà - working notifications.

Thanks to the sender of this tip ;)
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://devolute.net devolute

    Great. Little nagging details like this are why OMG sits in my RSS feed reader.

  • Yi Sun-sin

    I don’t understand. I have no Firefox extension related to notifications, and no specific package installed. This is not because of a ArchLinux specific patch, because there is (almost) no such thing as a ArchLinux specific patch. And I have native notifications, that works perfectly ! Even for extension update notification !

    • https://launchpad.net/~om26er Omer Akram

      does your Arch use notification daemon?

      • Yi Sun-sin

        Nope. I mean, yes. Err, well, the name of the Gnome native implementation of notification is notification daemon, so I have a package called notification-daemon installed on my system, but it is not the same as the Ubuntu-specific one.But since both system are based on Dbus, I assumed they would work the same way with Firefox !

        • https://launchpad.net/~om26er Omer Akram

          notification-daemon is the gnome’s daemon and the ubuntu specific thing is called notify-osd (if you dont know already) yes I have seen those notifications work in fedora as well which uses notification-daemon.

          • Yi Sun-sin

            Oh, okay, sorry, I thought both were called notification-daemon.
            So, I guess that means notify-osd and notification-daemon are not compatible, and Mozilla paid more attention toward Gnome/all the other distribution than toward Ubuntu.
            I think this clearly shows one again that Canonical should push their own development upstream, or leave them .

          • Anonymous

            Mozilla didn’t make the extension.

          • Anonymous

            on Arch I have notify-osd-bzr from AUR and don’t have notification-daemon installed, and I have fancy bubble notifications in Firefox without any extention
            notification-daemon and notify-osd both implement freedesktop.org notification specification, so why they work differently on ubuntu?

  • Lol

    is there something similar for Chrome/Chromium?

  • Anonymous

    What notifications does this take? The yellow bar at the top of a page when a plugin needs to be loaded, or the javascript alert’s, or something else?

    • http://artursm.myopenid.com/ Mr Bruce Connor

      Good question, I’m trying the add-on and I haven’t seen anything new yet.

  • http://artursm.myopenid.com/ Mr Bruce Connor

    Was this supposed tu achieve something? My firefox continues to behave exactly the same (though it does recognize the extension). And my “download completed” notifications don’t show up at all now.

  • http://ahylianhuman.wordpress.com/ Rod Davis

    Too bad this no longer exists in Natty. =/