Desktop Push Notifications not working in Microsoft Edge

[althruist]

Hi everyone,

I have been experiencing this issue when I try to turn on desktop push notifications, it does not work. I have allowed notifications but the switch won’t turn on!

Notifications are allowed.

I have highlighted the switch if you do not know what i’m talking about. The switch just does not want to turn on and I’d really appreciate if I got Desktop notifications! Any help please? Thanks!

Browser: Microsoft Edge 90.0.818.49

(And many thanks to @MisterGreenTurtle for filing this issue! Meanwhile they try to fix it, feel free to come up with any suggestions.)

[gigagiele]

Thanks for the report! We’ve filed a ticket to our internal database and we’ll follow up when we have an update for you.

[VGVC2]

Just letting you know you’re not the only one with this issue, I’m also experiencing the desktop notifications switch not switching on. In addition to the “Can we send you desktop notifications” banner constantly showing up and not going away.

[althruist]

Yes! It’s really annoying. I keep pressing “Accept” everytime but of course it’s not going to work. I hope they fix it ASAP. It’s been 2 months already.

[althruist]

I presume it only works on Chrome for some random reason…

[Meta_data (Meta)]

I actually figured out the exact cause of the issue here:

Desktop push notifications use deprecated gcm_sender_id for authentication

When enabling push notifications on Chrome you get this warning: [image] [image] The use of gcm_sender_id for authentication is discouraged and may even be removed in major Chrome updates. Which would cause the entire system to not work at all. Roblox needs to switch to using VAPID tokens for authentication ASAP, this will also make the notification system compatible with other browsers because Chrome (and Chromium) are the only browsers that support gcm_sender_id authentication. The push …

and for a more technical explanation:

Desktop push notification permissions not prompted in Firefox

I did some digging into identifying the potential cause of the issue. https://www.roblox.com/js/ServiceWorker/ServiceWorkerRegistrar.js var installOrUpdate = function () { var scriptUrl = getPushNotificationsServiceWorkerJsFileLocation(); navigator.serviceWorker.register(scriptUrl, { scope: '/' }).then(function (registration) { //success }).catch(function (error) { //failure }); }; From using debugging tools, I think Firefox is h…

It’s clear that Roblox doesn’t care about this issue and it won’t be fixed until push notifications break entirely (which they will.)

[althruist]

Then what’s the point of them saying they are taking a look into it? It’s seriously annoying me. It would be better if at least a pop-up didn’t come out.

[Meta_data (Meta)]

They probably just don’t think many people would use push notifications, so it’s not a high priority for them. They made the notifications in 2014-2015 as soon as Google released a chrome-only API for it and Roblox decided to use this experimental browser technology in production.

It’s the very definition of technical debt. They’d have to rewrite pretty much the whole system.

[althruist]

True. I’ve heard that the website uses some REALLY OLD code. I’d still wish to find a way to remove the pop-up…

[BaconHairFabFur (Bacon)]

i apologize for bumping this 4-5 month old topic, but i have this issue currently. i can’t be able to turn the setting on even when i already enabled the site notifications on edge

[GFXBIT]

Same
Th3s is bery anoyying,Hop3 they fix th3s sooon

[GFXBIT]

Okay,I found out the solution.
Go to Library and the “may we enable notification on this computer” will
become orange.Also it have X symbol in it.

press the x,it work for me.

[BaconHairFabFur (Bacon)]

@GFXBIT

Okay,I found out the solution.
Go to Library and the “may we enable notification on this computer” will
become orange.Also it have X symbol in it.

are you sure? i tried to go to library and clicked X on the “Can we send you notifications on this computer?” banner, and it didn’t work

[GFXBIT]

Are you sure?
I tried teh same method on my other alt in teh same browser.

[BaconHairFabFur (Bacon)]

@GFXBIT

I tried teh same method on my other alt in teh same browser.

did it work as expected?

@GFXBIT

Are you sure?

also yes, i am sure, because when i randomly got the “Can we send you notifications on this computer?” banner (finally), i read your post and did what you said, and nothing happened

[GFXBIT]

@BaconHairFabFur

did it work as expected?

It is.

@BaconHairFabFur

i read your post and did what you said, and nothing happened

Hmmm…maybe that work for few person.
I’m not glad that I can’t help you

[GalacticInspired (Galactic)]

Going to bump this game. Issue is still present, how has this not been found yet?

[althruist]

It’s probably cuz ROBLOX does not care about this situation lol

[LucidPolygon (Lucid)]

Im also having issues using edge,

The chromium version of edge on windows 11 is impossible to open studio from, I have to use chrome or firefox to open places. Edge seems to have alot of issues with roblox.

[buildthomas]

@Cbrrah

desktop push notafications

Discourse doesn’t really scale to millions of users, which is why it’s fine to use for something like DevForum with limited users but not for a huge website that requires high availability for millions or even billions of monthly active users. Everything is easier to do at low engineering scale.

In any case this conversation is off-topic and better held in a different topic/category.