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Gmail enables HTML5-powered desktop notifications
Google has just flipped the switch on a new feature in Gmail: desktop notifications for new email and instant messages. It only works in Google Chrome at the moment, but Google plans to bring it to other browsers that support HTML5, like Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9.If you reload your Gmail tab, you should be prompted to enable the desktop notifications -- otherwise, head into Settings, scroll down to Desktop Notifications, and choose what kind of notifications you want. You can currently toggle chat, new mail, and new important mail -- but presumably, you'll be able to select which labels will produce notifications.
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Subscribe to commentsKrazyCalvinJan 26th 2011 10:38PM
Did Drew already give that cookie away?
ForrestJan 26th 2011 10:57PM
Oh boy, I can't wait until about 12 seconds from now when annoying advertisers start abusing this idea.
motangJan 27th 2011 12:27AM
@Forrest That's going to suck big time!
RichardJan 27th 2011 5:27AM
You can get this today with Firefox and the "Webmail Notifier" plugin. Best of all, it works with more email providers than just Gmail (including Facebook).
Am I the only one (Firefox 3.6.12 on Windows) that has to reload the Download Squad page to get the comments to appear?
Sebastian AnthonyJan 27th 2011 6:04AM
@Richard No, someone else reported that the other day. It's being investigated -- but Web-facing changes usually take a long time to fix :(
(And boy is that a weird bug...)
FredJan 27th 2011 1:26PM
This is what I have been waiting for.
Goodbye outlook, goodbye thunderbird. Now, it's gmail in a Chrome app window with the calendar window lab enabled. hooray!
David S. (@seemsArtless)Jan 27th 2011 4:49PM
This is a good start, but can't wait until there are more rules that can be applied to when the pop-ups appear - "Important mail notifications on - Notify me only when an important message arrives in my inbox" is pretty useful though.