Google has announced today that it is retiring its annoying Chrome notification center from upcoming Chrome versions for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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The notification centre was handy for aggregating the push notifications you received from websites through Chrome and displaying them in a centralised location so you wouldn’t miss out on any of them.
This, they said would be a “better visual indication of the security state of the page relative to HTTP” and ensure that Chrome users have fewer security states to learn.
Google is getting rid of notification center bundled with Chrome as web standard push notifications start taking off.
Before the official update, Google’s beta version of Chrome had the new features available for those curious enough to access it. Now officially integrated into the safer Chrome, users can expect to see improvements happen under the surface. However, it is still present in Chrome 46. However, Google has seen it fit to kill its full-fledged notification center on Windows, Mac and Linux when the next version arrives. This was followed by the notification center in 2013, which had the additional ability of working even when the chrome browser was closed. However, the secured HTTPS pages, regular HTTP pages and broken HTTPS pages icons would stay unchanged. “During this process the site may not be fully secured, but it will usually not be less secure than before”, they explained. “We hope that this will encourage site operators to switch to HTTPS sooner rather than later”, the Google security blog post notes. It is meant to make page security clearer to users while encouraging site administrators to continue the move to using secure HTTPS technology.
The Chromium blog outlines how developers are able to animate any graphical object without as much complex javascript code.
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