Solved Please explain Push Notifications

"Windows 11 Forum would like your permission to enable push notifications"

Is this push notifications on the forum/website only? Or is this a request to push notifications to my phone?

I think it will send a notification to you Windows device. Not sure on the phone though. I always decline push notifications from websites, tbh.

Same here. But before I disable that message I'd like to try and understand how it works.

Push technology or server push is a style of Internet-based communication where the request for a given transaction is initiated by the publisher or central server. It is contrasted with pull / get, where the request for the transmission of information is initiated by the receiver or client.

Thanks. But I know how push notifications work. My question relates to how they work on this Forum.
I get daily (instant) email notifications from the forum. So is this Push request something else?

I always say yes to Push Notifications, but on most sites I get a response that Firefox does not support Push Notifications??

Yeah, I'm on Firefox too.
I wouldn't mind getting them in Firefox while on the site, just not on my phone.

This will NOT send them to your phone... I don't use Firefox, but on Chrome, it just pops up a little window in the lower left of your screen that tells you someone commented on a post you follow (same as the emails you get) or a notice that someone reacted to a post you've done (which you don't get emails for).

That explains it! Thanks.

Josey Wales said:

I always say yes to Push Notifications, but on most sites I get a response that Firefox does not support Push Notifications??

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After I allowed push notifications on the Forum I got a pop-up from Firefox asking me if I want to allow notifications from the site. Clicked yes.
Maybe if you missed that pop-up then you could enable it in settings.