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Asked: 2026-05-20T04:36:13+00:00

I am trying to implement support for WebKit’s native desktop notifications on my site.

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I am trying to implement support for WebKit’s native desktop notifications on my site. When I try to ask for user’s permission to use the notifications, absolutely nothing happens. For example, the following HTML does not prompt Chrome to ask me for permission:

<html lang="en">
<head></head>

<body>
    <h1>Testing</h1>
    <script>
        window.webkitNotifications.requestPermission();
    </script>
</body>
</html>

I know that there is no problem with my version of Chrome because other sites (e.g. http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/notifications/quick/) work perfectly fine: I can see both the prompt and the subsequent notifications.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Check the specification at chromium api docs. You can call it only as a feedback to user gesture/action – mouse click etc.

    requestPermission Requests that the
    user agent ask the user for permission
    to show notifications from scripts.
    This method should only be called
    while handling a user gesture    ; in
    other circumstances it will have no
    effect. This method is asynchronous.
    The function provided in callback will
    be invoked when the user has responded
    to the permission request. If the
    current permission level is
    PERMISSION_DENIED, the user agent may
    take no action in response to
    requestPermission.

    UPDATE 2014-10-01: In Chrome 37, the user gesture requirement was removed. It should now be possible to request permission to display notifications at any moment. If you wish to target older versions of Chrome as well (eg. in a corporate environment), you’ll probably need to continue relying on user gesture events.

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