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background notifications
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Background notifications in Microsoft Edge help users stay updated without constant interruptions. Recent improvements focus on reducing distraction from notification requests while ensuring important alerts are not missed. The browser now manages notification prompts more intelligently, keeping quiet requests for less critical sites and enabling full prompts for sites users care about. This approach balances productivity and focus, allowing users to receive timely updates from the web without overwhelming their workflow. Edge continues to refine notification and badging features to enhance user experience.
Notifications are an important part of the web, helping users stay up to date about what’s going on. Earlier this summer we announced a set of changes to make notification requests less distracting for users. This was just the first step, and we are working to reenable the full notification...
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