Quick Tip: How To Manage Web Notifications in Microsoft Edge

Richard Hay, Senior Content Producer

December 6, 2016

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Quick Tip: How To Manage Web Notifications in Microsoft Edge

 

Although Microsoft Edge has been playing catchup in adding many of the features we are used to seeing in other browsers it is steadily getting there.

I suspect one of the under utilized features might be the web notifications that can be pushed from Microsoft Edge to your Action Center in Windows 10.

Part of that reason is that not all websites, Twitter for instance, recognizes Microsoft Edge as capable of handling web notifications from their service. I am sure there are others out there as well but until Microsoft Edge gains more traction that is an unfortunate side effect.

However, if you are running Windows 10 and use any services that support Microsoft Edge and web notifications then you will want to be able to manage them and this gallery walk through will show you how to do just that.

As you can see above Gmail supports web notifications in Microsoft Edge plus the web based Skype site also supports them. Outside of those two I have not come across others so would love to hear from you all on what sites you have discovered that support web notifications in Microsoft Edge.

Leave us the sites name in the comments below - thanks!

 

About the Author

Richard Hay

Senior Content Producer, IT Pro Today (Informa Tech)

I served for 29 plus years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer in November 2011. My work background in the Navy was telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well with what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena.

My first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and WindowsObserver.com is the result of the work I have done on that site since 1995.

In January 2010 my community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when I received my first Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the Windows Operating System. Since then I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP each subsequent year since that initial award. I am also a member of the inaugural group of Windows Insider MVPs which began in 2016.

I previously hosted the Observed Tech PODCAST for 10 years and 317 episodes and now host a new podcast called Faith, Tech, and Space. 

I began contributing to Penton Technology websites in January 2015 and in April 2017 I was hired as the Senior Content Producer for Penton Technology which is now Informa Tech. In that role, I contribute to ITPro Today and cover operating systems, enterprise technology, and productivity.

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