Firefox will hide push notification requests by default next year

Firefox will hide push notification requests by default from version 72. Mozilla does this because users reject such a request 97 percent of the time. Currently, users can disable request pop-ups themselves.

Requests to allow push notifications are no longer displayed in Firefox 72 with a pop-up, but only with an icon in the address bar. That’s what a Mozilla developer tells ZDNet. In current Firefox versions, users can already disable the pop-ups via the Privacy & Security tab in the options, but the requests will be shown by default.

Mozilla already researched the notifications earlier this year and wrote that in less than three percent of the cases, users consent to the sending of push notifications. In 19 percent of cases, visitors would immediately leave a site upon seeing a notification pop-up request.

While the pop-ups in Firefox 72 are disappearing, a new method is taking its place to grab users’ attention. The notification icon in the address bar gets a short animation. When users visit a site that asks for notifications for the first time, that icon moves. That should make it clear to users that they can enable push notifications. The functionality is already active in the Nightly version of Firefox 72. The final version will be released in January.

The current option to disable notifications in Firefox 70