That may change in the near future, as Google is experimenting with the built-in OS X Notification Center. Chrome has supported notifications for a few years, but they’ve always been done entirely through the browser, with a big ugly box popping up anytime it went to alert you. A user posted the following in Chrome’s support forum in 2013, “Chrome’s notifications are inconsistent with the rest of the OS and apps’ notifications”.
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Google Chrome on OS X is getting rid of its extraneous in-house push notifications in favor of integrating into Apple’s Notification Center, The Next Webnoticed on Wednesday. As The Next Web reports, users can switch it on by visiting chrome://flags/#enable-native-notifications, selecting “Enabled”, and restarting the browser. Google developers say work on OS X Notification Center integration is being actively pursued, but it is not “100% clear either way” whether support will become official as “certain roadblocks” could potentially prevent that from happening.
Any Mac user who regularly receives push notifications through Chrome should be happy to hear this. Another user chimed in, “If I hadn’t found out about the chrome://flags removal option, I would have stopped using Chrome over this”.
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This notifications move could be coming to the Windows version of Chrome too, as Windows has its own native notification system as well.
