"Do not disturb me" Notifications setting repeatedly unchecked
Hi,
In addition to using Firefox as my sole browser at this time (Windows 7), I often use CCleaner to clear history, etc.
Lately my "Do not disturb me" setting is repeatedly cleared, or unchecked. This is not desirable, as I am more than sick & tired of people trying to interrupt my browsing. I wish that Firefox developers would choose to not support such crappy behavior in any way, shape, or form. But they do.
So I don't know if a Firefox update or more thorough CCleaner update is responsible for frequently and undesirably unchecking my "Do not disturb me" box.
If it's a Firefox problem, please fix it and go back to leaving me alone without all the annoying location, etc. notices.
In the meantime, I'll try an about:config fix seen here in the forums.
It's unfortunate that Firefox's ongoing development requires true/false about:config fixes, which are seemingly becoming more common with settings not meeting user expectations. Resulting to about:config is surely beyond what most users want to or can do.
Thank you for your time, makaio
Modified by makaio
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How soon does "Do not disturb" get unchecked? It is only for the current session, so if it gets unchecked when you exit Firefox and start it up again, that's normal.
In case anyone else reading is curious about the about:config settings, I posted what I know about in this thread: https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1148178
As far as I can tell, there is no preference for turning on "do not disturb" by default.
This code will turn it on --
let alertsDND = Cc["@mozilla.org/alerts-service;1"]
.getService(Ci.nsIAlertsService)
.QueryInterface(Ci.nsIAlertsDoNotDisturb);
try {
alertsDND.manualDoNotDisturb = true;
} catch (err) {
// didn't work
}
-- but you can only run that from a privileged context such as an extension, the Scratchpad developer tool, or possibly in an Autoconfig file that Firefox processes at startup. (I've seen examples of using code in such a file in the past but never tried it myself.)
It would be nice if this were a built-in option (like block and remember for website permissions). You could suggest that on the feedback page or file a new bug for it.
makaio said
... go back to leaving me alone without all the annoying location, etc. notices.
Location permission requests are not related to notifications.
You won't break very many sites if you completely disable location permission requests (and use of location features) by setting geo.enabled to false, but you may from time to time see sites where expected content simply does not appear with that setting because their code doesn't work with that setting. The latest report was Mapquest directions.
Fixed bad typos
Modified by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
Thank you for your replies.
- - - How soon does "Do not disturb" get unchecked? It is only for the current session, so if it gets unchecked when you exit Firefox and start it up again, that's normal. - - -
Such behavior being normal -- creating a browser setting that must repeatedly reset for each and every session -- makes no sense.
I realize I need to do more reading, and will do so, however such an intentional design is hard to believe.
Have a good night.