Facebook now support push notifications from their website on both desktop and mobile

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Facebook now has fully functional offline notification support in Chrome (and other?) browser.
This alert came to me even though Facebook was not loaded in any tab.
Google developed this feature and did not bother using it themselves in any of their web apps until now.

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Firefox has push notification option but I dont know if Facebook uses it

Firefox/Push Notifications - MozillaWiki

Update:
It appears that its scheduled for FF 44. But I saw "push notification" prefence in Firefox. So got confused!
 
There are two things here -

Notification API = This is supported by Firefox and Chrome.

For Notification API - That page sending notification should be open in browser.


2nd NEW thing is Push API.

For this you register it once and then you get notifications even if page is not open.

This does not work in Firefox 42. May be it will in FF 44 which should not be far from release I think.

PS:
For me opening the Page in FF42 shows this at end.

Your Browser doesn't support ServiceWorkers
Your Browser doesn't support Push
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hmm. i am probably on their beta channel.
 

i wonder how long i would need to run facebook in firefox to get the permission box to turn on the setting!
 
Does Facebook support it for Firefox? Thats the question? I dont have compatible version so I cud not try.
 
Not sure. I have not read an official announcement from the company. Just got an alert one day if i wanted to turn it on and since then it has been working pretty nicely. Too bad Google does not use this feature for their own apps (Gmail, Calendar, Google+). Insane.
 

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