Firefox extension to add HTML5 desktop notifications support

This extension adds desktop notifications to Firefox. It provides to each webpage an API described by Google Chrome at http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/desktop-notifications/api-specification

With this extension installed, you can now use window.webkitNotifications in your webpage like in Google Chromium.

I need you !

I need some help with the icon of the extension, which is really ugly ! If you're good at those stuffs, please suggest somethings using this link : http://code.google.com/p/ff-html5notifications/issues/detail?id=40

Usage example

For instance, this extension can display notifications with GMail and GChat. You will have a message "Click here to activate desktop notifications" : click and authorize. Then, modify parameters under the general settings tab.

Download

Download latest version

Current version is 1.0.8

Alternate server

You can also download the extension on Mozilla addons website (not always up to date) : https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/html-notifications/

Note for Mac OS X users : HTML notifications are currently unsupported, and simple notifications need Growl to work (download Growl at http://www.growl.info/)

Note for Linux users with libnotify (most of distributions) : extension mail fail to work sometimes. This can be solved by disabling images. For more informations, see Issue 32

Features

Create simple notifications : with icon, title and description
Support HTML notifications
Request permission using notification box
Support onclose, ondisplay and onerror notification attributes
Implement close() method
Disable notification auto-hiding
Localization support
Support private browsing mode

TODO

Support a preference checkbox "ignore private browsing mode"
Support notification stack (display new notification above/below the previous ones)
Implement postMessage for reflection iframe

Will not

Support auto-close

Notes

In HTML notifications, window.opener is a reflection iframe. It is not the window that has called the show() method. Only the focus() method can be used.

Contact

If it's about a bug, a feature, or something else concerning directly the extension, please use the Issues Link

To contact me, please use the contact form at my blog : http://blog.cyril.me/2010/08/notifications-html5-firefox/