webextension: how to notify a user from content or background script

[quaz...@gmail.com]

I need to be able to alert user from content script.
Right now I am using chrome.notifications.create which works fine in options script but nowhere else.
How can I notify user from content script?
Or if that's not possible, I know how to send a message to the background script ... how would I notify user from there?

Thanks in advance.

[Jorge Villalobos]

You can communicate with the background script, which is the one that
has the privileges to notify the user:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Content_scripts#Communicating_with_background_scripts

Jorge

[Andrew McKay]

I think you asked this in #webextensions too, but for completeness
sake repeating here. It should also work from a background script,
here's an example:

https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/master/notify-link-clicks-i18n

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[quaz...@gmail.com]

Unfortunately, the example is not working. I will file a bug.