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NitroJolt
Copper Contributor
Sep 12, 2019

Outlook.com desktop notifications can't be enabled

On Outloook.com, using Edge Dev 78.0.268.3 I'm not offered the option to enable desktop notifications. Here is Edge Dev: vs Chrome 76.0.3809.132    
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NitroJolt
Copper Contributor
Sep 12, 2019

HotCakeX 

But still missing desktop notifications. These are notifications that are handed off to be displayed by the OS via the browser. Here is the missing section in Chrome:

 

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    NitroJolt
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 12, 2019

    HotCakeX 

    Both sites work, after granting access:

    Also worth noting that desktop notifications from Gmail (and a lot of other websites) work well in Edge Dev.

    Outlook.com is supposed to give you the same prompt when you toggle Desktop notifications on, however the whole setting is unavailable. I have also tried pre-emptively allowing notifications for Outlook.com via settings, but no dice.

    I can only guess that the capabilities being advertised by msedge dev to outlook.com aren't proper?

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      HotCakeX
      MVP
      Dec 09, 2019

      Hi there NitroJolt 

      I wanted to post an update for your issue and say that it's fixed, not sure when it was exactly fixed, maybe sooner but now that I'm checking on Edge insider canary version 80.0.358, i can see the option and successfully activated and received notifications 🙂

       

       

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        NitroJolt
        Copper Contributor
        Dec 09, 2019

        Thanks HotCakeX

         

        I noticed it started working roughly a month ago. I forgot to post back here - apologies.

         

        No longer an issue.

         

        Thanks!