It hasn’t been long since Chrome started supporting push notifications for web pages via the web push standard, but notifications aren’t new for the browser, apps and extensions for Chrome have supported push notifications on desktop since as far back as 2010. To streamline these notifications Chrome received a notification center in 2013 so that users could easily look in one place and find all of the notifications from apps and extensions that they might have missed. Things are changing now though.
The team agrees that few users actually visit the notification center in practice, which is why it has been decided that in the interest of keeping Chrome “simple,” it has been decided that the notification center will be removed from Windows, Mac and Linux in the upcoming release.
From now on the notification center will only be available on Chrome OS, users on all other desktop platforms will have to live without it just because the Chrome team feels that the overall user experience will be much better if notification center bites the dust for good.
This change affects notifications sent solely to the notification center, which will now result in an error, any and all other notifications will continue to work just fine without needing any changes.
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