Firefox To Hide Notification Popups By Default Starting Next Year

'In a move to fight spam and improve the health of the web, Firefox
will hide those annoying notification popups by default starting next
year, with the release of Firefox 72, in January 2020, ZDNet has
learned from a Mozilla engineer.

The move comes after Mozilla ran an experiment back in April this year
to see how users interacted with notifications, and also looked at
different ways of blocking notifications from being too intrusive.
Usage stats showed that the vast majority (97%) of Firefox users
dismissed notifications, or chose to block a website from showing
notifications at all...

As a result, Mozilla engineers have decided to hide the notification
popup that drops down from Firefox's URL bar, starting with Firefox
72. If a website shows a notification, the popup will be hidden by
default, and an icon added to the URL bar instead. Firefox will then
animate the icon using a wiggle effect to let the user know there's a
notification subscription popup available, but the popup won't be
displayed until the user clicks the icon.

Mozilla is the first browser vendor to block notification popups by
default, according to the article. It's already available in Firefox
Nightly versions, but will be added to the stable branch in January.

"I think Mozilla's decision is good for the health of the web," Jérôme
Segura, malware analyst at Malwarebytes tells ZDNet.'

-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/11/03/1646236

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University of Waikato, NZ
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