Find and Disable Push Notifications in Firefox and Chrome

Here's how to disable the annoying push notifications in Firefox and Google Chrome.
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Push notifications in browsers allow websites (if allowed) to display notifications for new activity on your desktop.

When you visit a website that wants you to send notification, you'll a pop-out of this sort:

Enable or disable push notifications in the Firefox browser, when the site asks for permission
Push Notification Permission in Firefox

If you allow, you'll start getting desktop notifications for new activities about that website.

For example, if you are a member of It's FOSS Community forum, you can get desktop notifications when someone replies to your posts.

Many websites also use push notifications to inform you when a new article is published. This happens even when the website is not opened in the browser.

But occasionally, this can be annoying, too 😠 Specially when a website starts sending too many or irrelevant notifications.

In this article, I will explain how to disable push notifications in Firefox and Chrome, two of the most popular web browsers on the internet.

The process should be similar for other Chromium-based browsers as well.

Disable Push Notification in Firefox

Let's see how you can block push notifications for a specific website or multiple of them.

1. Disable push notifications for specific websites

While you are browsing that particular site, you can click on the website settings button on the address bar as shown below:

Remove the Notification Permission for the currently visiting website. The settings for this can be accessed by clicking on the "permissions" button on the address bar.
Remove the Notification Permission

This will list the permissions that site has. If it has notification permission allowed, click on the cross icon adjacent to "Send notifications" to revoke that permission.

2. Disable push notification from multiple websites

There is another way to disable notifications for multiple websites in one go.

First, click on the top-right hamburger menu and head to the settings.

Click on the top-right hamburger menu on Firefox and select the Settings option.
Select Settings in Firefox

Within the settings menu, go to the Privacy and Security tab and scroll down to the Permissions section. Here, click on the Settings button adjacent to the Notification item.

Click on the “Settings” button adjacent to the Notifications. It can be found inside the Permissions section of the Privacy and Security tab in Firefox settings.
Select Notification Settings in Firefox

In the resulting window, you can Allow/Block notification of individual websites, or remove permissions, for all the websites (more on that below).

Block the notification permission for individual sites using the Notification settings window.
Change Individual Site Notification Settings

Click on Save Changes to save the settings.

3. Disable push notifications from all sites & block new requests

In that same permission window that you see above, you can also choose to remove all the sites allowed for displaying notifications.

Fret not, if you skipped directly to this method, let me tell you again:

Go to the Hamburger Menu → Settings → Privacy and Security. Scroll down to the Permissions section and select the Settings button adjacent to “Notifications”.

Click on the “Settings” button adjacent to the Notifications. You can locate this in the "Permissions" section of the "Privacy and Security" tab in Firefox settings.
Notification Settings in Firefox

Inside the new window, click on the Remove All Website button. This will revoke all the notification permissions.

Remove the Notification permission for all the allowed websites in a single step using Firefox settings.
Remove all Notification Permissions
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If you want, you can select the Block new request asking to allow notifications checkbox. Doing this will prohibit websites from asking for notifications permission in the future.

Once changes are made, click on the Save Changes button to finish the settings.

Disable Push Notification in Chrome

The steps applicable for Google Chrome should work on any Chromium-based browser, with slight differences, such as Microsoft Edge offers a “Cookies and site permissions” menu and Brave offers "Site and Shield" settings.

They all work the same way, only a tad bit different in how the options are accessible to you.

1. Disable push notification for single site

If you want to remove the permission of the site you are visiting currently, click on the permissions button on the address bar.

Click on the site settings button on the Chrome address bar.
Click on Site Settings Button on the Address Bar

From the dropdown menu, disable the permission to send notifications. Either toggle off the Notifications option or click on the Reset Permission button under Notifications.

Disable the notifications for the current website using the site settings button in the Chrome Address bar.
Reset Site Notification Permission

2. Disable notifications for Multiple sites

In Chrome, you can specify a block list with website addresses. And, you won’t receive notifications from these sites.

To do so, like in the previous step, go to Settings → Privacy and Security → Site Settings → Notifications.

Now, scroll down to the Customized Behaviors section. Here, you can use the Add button to add the full addresses of sites, whose notifications you want blocked by default.

Specify a list of addresses on Chrome notification settings, so that, these websites won’t be allowed to send notifications to you.
Block notifications for selected websites

You can see in the above screenshots, I have blocked several sites from sending notifications.

3. Completely disable notification in Chrome

Don’t want any sites to send notifications? You can do that as well.

First, go to Settings → Privacy and Security → Site Settings → Notifications.

Under Default Behavior, select "Do not allow sites to send notifications" button.

Block all the websites from sending notifications to you in Chrome.
Do not allow websites to send notifications

That’s it! You won’t receive any website notifications now.

💬What is your default preference for push notifications on web browsers? Do you find them useful or do you keep them disabled? Let me know your thoughts!

About the author
Sreenath

Sreenath

Linux tinkerer by day, Lord of the Rings fanatic by night. When I'm not busy conquering the command line, you can find me kicking back and watching some football while quoting JRR Tolkien

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