Firefox does not use Ubuntu Notifications
Bug #742475 reported by
theghost
This bug affects 22 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
On Natty default install, Firefox displays a notification when a download is finished. Unfortunately it uses it's own notfication system instead of the Ubuntu Notification System.
On Maverick you could use xul-ext-notfiy for notifications via notify-osd but in Natty this package is not available anymore.
Please provide a way to use Ubuntu's nice notifications with Firefox 4 in Natty and make it as default install too, because of consistency.
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We don't support third party extensions, so you need to talk to the developers of xul-ext-notify if you want it to work in Firefox 4. In any case, Firefox already supports libnotify notifications, but it falls back to its own XUL notifications on Ubuntu because notify-osd doesn't support actions. Overriding this would provide an even more sub-optimal experience ("download finished" notifications with no obvious way to access those downloads are completely useless), so it's totally the wrong thing to do.
What should happen is that download progress should be integrated with the launcher in Unity, but that's not for the natty timeframe.