Description of the issue:
Apparently you can receive notifications when the tabs are closed. After using brave for so many years that I don’t even remember, I’ve never once received notifications from a site while having no instance of that site open, i.e., no tab with that site is open. I was only able to receive notifications if the tab was open.
I don’t know how I lived veiled, but knowing this is possible and not being able to achieve that, is pretty disappointing. The only way that seems to achieve that is to install the app that is based on the given site, such as the email service and receive notifications locally. This doesn’t dismiss every issue though since there are countless sites without a dedicated software.
I checked for the past 3 hours every forum post about this and tried so many other things that I can’t even remember everything that I tried.
First of all, even though I can receive notifications when the tab is open, I checked the settings and put everything on:
I checked cookies and selected allow all cookies, I checked Site Shields and Settings > Notifications. I even pressed “Expand all Requests” at the “Sites can ask to send notifications” prompt. I checked, reset and enabled notification settings for some sites having checked “Remember my decision… Forever”.
I also enabled. I activated “Use Google services for push messaging”. I even created a new profile and turned off any security settings and turned on any of the settings mentioned so far. I even checked and enabled pretty much any flag that had to deal with notifications in some way.
After each setting I’ve done I tested the notifications in 2 ways.
- By creating an event in Proton Calendar that had an instant reminder and was set 1 or 2 minutes later. Closed the tab and never received anything.
- By using https://www.bennish.net/web-notifications.html and pressing to receive a notification 5 seconds later, but never did.
For any useful additional information, I use Windows 11, and recently did a factory reset, but this happened before and still happens, so any potential system settings are ruled out.
So many hours spent pretty much for nothing. This is disappointing to say the least, so any possible solutions are favourable. I have also an additional issue with search that was made in a previous post that was also never solved.
I’ve been using Brave for so long that I don’t really want to have to make a switch.
Expected result:
Have a site that sends notifications, such as Proton email. Close the tab. Still receive notifications.
Receive notifications even though the tab is closed
Brave Version:
(Should be irrelevant since I’ve had this issue from the dawn of time)
Version 1.66.118 Chromium: 125.0.6422.147 (Official Build) (64-bit)
