Disable default alert sound for Firefox web notifications

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daGUY picture daGUY · Dec 15, 2014 · Viewed 13.7k times · Source

I'm using the Web Notification API to show desktop notifications from my web app under OSX.

In Firefox only, when a notification is triggered, it also plays a sound (in Safari and Chrome, using the exact same code, only the notification displays and there's no accompanying sound effect).

I'd like to disable the notification sound in Firefox, but I can't find anything in the documentation about controlling it. Is this possible?

Answer

Fred picture Fred · Apr 13, 2015

On OS X, go to System Preferences, then Notifications. Choose Firefox and uncheck Play sound for notifications to get rid of the sound.

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