Google Chrome 68 Adds Support For Native Windows 10 Notifications

After months of testing, Google has finally turned on native support for desktop notifications on Windows x with Chrome 68. The feature was rolled out on macOS earlier this month with Chrome 59. The notifications are sent via the Activity Center, and according to Thurrott.com, allows users to utilise Windows 10's custom notification settings to the browser.

"Users can as well choose to limit the number of notifications that are displayed, every bit well as their priority in the Activity Eye. And secondly, you tin can avert getting distracted when you are in Windows 10's Focus Help (Quiet Hours) mode"

It is worth noting here that the feature is being rolled out slowly as we speak, and according to Google's Peter Beverloo (@beverloo), is available for around fifty per centum of all Chrome 68 users on Windows ten. It is expected to be somewhen rolled out to all such users over the coming days. Users not willing to wait should be able to enable the characteristic manually through 'chrome://flags > Native Notifications'.

We're now rolling out back up for native notifications in Chrome 68 using the Windows 10 Action Center—super heady! Would honey to hear your feedback! pic.twitter.com/UIDzaroR9D

— Peter Beverloo (@beverloo) Baronial viii, 2018

With Firefox yet to introduce native notifications in Windows 10, Chrome has now become the first major browser apart from Microsoft's own Edge to add support for the new feature. The browser also (briefly) had unofficial support for Windows Timeline through an extension that has since been taken down because of copyright issues.

Unofficial back up for Windows Timeline was also briefly available via an extension, simply it was taken down last week due to trademark issues. A 'fixed' version of the extension is reportedly nonetheless pending review, only will hopefully exist available before long.

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