Notifications on Google Chrome are basically dead … well, at least the ones the browser generates itself. Some time ago, the company made an effort to attach their notifications to the notification center related to the user’s operating system and depending on how you configured it (or not), it can become more boring to manage. Fortunately, there is a way around this nonsense!

What sort of nonsense am I talking about? Well, we can only attest to the use of Windows, but first and foremost it’s those stretched jingles. Second, each notification pops up one at a time, which is great when you have an entire stack of them lined up. And then there’s this weird hitbox where the notification takes up more space than it seems (pictured above).

What Microsoft really should do is fix these issues. But until that happens, you can reset these notifications to Chrome by opening a window and entering chrome: // flags in the address bar. You can also apply the same modification to your Chromium-based browser by replacing “chrome” in chrome: // flags with the name of your alternative.

The pros go straight to chrome: // flags / # enable-native-notifications

The specific indicator you want to look for in the huge list is “Enable native notifications” to turn it off.

It is more or less that! Chrome will once again be responsible for sending notifications from your most important and favorite sites.

There are doubts about the longevity of this workaround after disabling the flag for the M85 version of Chrome, but it was rolled back in M86 and should be at least at the M90 ​​level.