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Dev channel update to 96.0.1032.0 is live
josh_bodner OK, that site worked, but still no notification. I tested that site on Windows (Edge Dev release) and I get notifications there, but not on the Mac.
Let me know if the attached is not enough info.
This is another simple one that works on Windows, but not Mac
https://www.bennish.net/web-notifications.html
Interestingly it doesn't add any output to edge://push-internals
MarkBarbieri sorry for the delayed response! It's actually by design that that Bennish site doesn't output anything to push-internals. There are multiple ways to show toast notifications, and Push is just one way of doing that. Bennish doesn't use Push though, so between that and the output from push-internals, it looks like Push is working fine, and the problem is on the toast side.
So, can you try that Bennish site again, and maybe also https://web-push-book.gauntface.com/demos/notification-examples/, and then afterwards, copy over the contents of edge://histograms/Notification (if you open that histogram page before doing the tests, make sure you refresh the histogram page after doing the tests). Also, do you have Chrome on the machine, and can you see if Chrome is having the same problem? Ideally, the same channel of Chrome as Edge?
josh_bodner I just tested Chromium Version 96.0.4664.0 (Developer Build) (x86_64). Both Bennish and gauntface.com sites work as expected.
Histogram for the same single push notification from Chromium attached.
MarkBarbieri Now that I'm thinking about it, can you install a different Edge channel that you don't currently have on the machine and see if it works there? That would help narrow down whether it's an issue with the way your particular install is configured or a product bug.
josh_bodner I would say you're on to something. I tried Edge Release version (Version 95.0.1020.38 (Official build) (x86_64)) and both sites work correctly. I can't recall when this version was in Dev, but given the length of time this has been an issue, I would have probably had this issue with 95 Dev build as well. Therefore it is fair to say that it is possibly a local issue, but I'm not sure what caused it.
While we could investigate this further to find the root cause (which I'm happy to persist with), unless you have other similar cases that you want to resolve then it might be the best use of your time for me to somehow reset the local setup. The question is how do I force a reset to resolve this?
Thanks for your time on this,
josh_bodner Thanks, that makes sense, re: the toast vs push notification, although I would have thought both are valid approaches but yet I get neither, so for me there are issues with both toast and push.
Just for clarification, I do not receive any notifications from sites such as GMail, Youtube, (or any other site). It's interesting that on outlook.com it is not even possible to toggle on the 'Desktop Notification setting'. (See attachment). Does the outlook.com team know something about the lack of desktop notification support?
I will install Chrome and test it later today.
Checking edge://histograms/Notification, Bennish does not produce any output (as expected for toast notification) and attached is the output for a single push from web-push-book.gauntface.com
Thanks
