Modern web browsers support “Push Notifications,” a feature that allows websites (such as news outlets or social media platforms) to send pop-up alerts to your desktop even when you aren’t actively looking at their tab. Because this feature is so widely abused, nearly every website you visit now immediately bombards you with a prompt asking, “This website would like to send you notifications.” If you never want websites to send you desktop alerts and are tired of constantly clicking “Block” on every single site you visit, you can configure Mozilla Firefox to block all notification requests globally.
How to Block All Push Notification Requests
You can silence these annoying prompts permanently through the privacy settings.
- Open the Mozilla Firefox browser.
- Click the Application Menu button (the three horizontal lines) in the top-right corner.
- Select Settings from the drop-down menu.
- In the left-hand sidebar, click on Privacy & Security.
- Scroll down the page until you find the Permissions section.
- Locate the row labelled Notifications and click the Settings… button next to it.
- A new window will pop up showing websites that currently have permission to send alerts.
- At the bottom of this window, check the box labelled Block new requests asking to allow notifications.
- Click the Save Changes button at the bottom right.
Firefox will immediately stop displaying the pop-up notification prompts when you visit new websites. It will automatically deny the requests silently in the background, allowing you to browse the web in peace without constant interruptions.