Is it possible to show notifications even if the browser is closed?

[Uğur]

Hi everyone!

I have created an alarm and every time I receive a message from that alarm, I show a notification to the user, which is fine but when browser is closed, I don't see any notification.

What I would like to do is to show the notification to the user even if the browser is closed.

Is it technically possible?

[Deco]

Yes, only if you have the keep Chrome running in the background when closed option enabled in the settings.

Cheers,

Deco

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[Uğur]

Hey Deco,

I assume I must ask to users to toggle on that feature right? is there a way to do it programatically?

I couldn't find "keep Chrome running in the background when closed" option in the Settings btw, is there a doc for it?

[Robbi]

chrome://settings/system

[Uğur]

Hey Robbi!

There are only two options available to me

[Deco]

You cannot switch on the toggle programmatically, so yes it has to be manually (disabled) by the user, it is enabled by default. The specific setting you are looking for is "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed", under the Advanced settings in the browser.

Note that this assumes your extension is following proper procedure for background scripts, e.g. the use of ofInterval, if not, then the extension won't run in the background with this setting on.

Thanks,

Deco

[Robbi]

There are only two options available to me

Weird, are you using Yandex Browser?

[Uğur]

No, maybe it's related to OS? I'm not sure.

My agent: `Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36`

[Uğur]

Okay, it's nice to know that it's enabled by default. I will put an info box in my extension in case anyone disabled it. It would be a good feature to be able to detect it and show an alert to the user though.

Anyway,thanks, Deco :)

[wOxxOm]

This option alone is not sufficient. You also need to add "background" to "permissions" in manifest.json.

[Uğur]

Hey wOxxOm,

You are like a superhero to me! I always  see your helpful comments, even from years ago (in stackoverflow too.)

Thank you so much for helping people in this community :)

[Suraj SJARALI]

I have enabled 'Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed' in the settings. I've also added 'background', 'notifications', 'gcm', and 'storage' to the 'permissions' section of the manifest.json. However, I only receive notifications after Chrome is opened once post-restart. Is it possible to receive notifications even without opening Chrome at least once after restarting?

[Suraj SJARALI]

I have enabled 'Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed' in the settings. I've also added 'background', 'notifications', 'gcm', and 'storage' to the 'permissions' section of the manifest.json. However, I only receive notifications after Chrome is opened once post-restart. Is it possible to receive notifications even without opening Chrome at least once after restarting?

On Saturday, June 24, 2023 at 11:28:51 PM UTC+5:30 Uğur wrote: