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I use this feature selectively in Safari now, and am glad to see it in Firefox. Eventually I'm sure I'll run into the problem of getting duplicate notifications from the same sites. I wonder what the solution for that will be... running only one browser at a time is not an option. Maybe I'll have to keep track of and choose just one browser per site for allowing notifications.

Why have two browsers open at once? So that I can be logged into Google services simultaneously with two different accounts (personal and work). Off topic, but would be glad to know if there's another way to do that.

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Most Google apps supports a way to have multiple Google accounts active, typically by adding /u/[numeric index of a specific Google account]. Gmail for example:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#inbox

The "u/2" part indicates that this is the gmail view for the third (counting 0) user

For Google Apps for work, if you go to mail.google.com/a/example.com, it will let you log in separately to an example.com account and then redirect to a url like the one above.

> Most Google apps supports a way to have multiple Google accounts active, typically by adding /u/[numeric index of a specific Google account]

FWIW: instead of manually entering the numeric index, you can enter the full email address instead. so you can enter /u/john.d@work-email.biz or /u/j.doegg@gmail.com. This is handy because the numeric index depends on the order in which you logged into (added) the accounts and I don't want to have to remember that!

Chrome supports multiple user accounts. I do this for my work and personal accounts. You don't have to switch between them; you can have windows from both accounts open at the same time.

Doesn't that require switching account based on tab? Seems easier to just use two browsers than deal with sign-in settings many times / day.

No, you can have one Chrome window assigned to persona "work" and another window assigned to "personal" and they will each have their own sets of cookies and settings and history.

I'm a bit annoyed that Facebook notifies me twice for every message, once on mobile through chrome and once on desktop. Is there any way to retract a notification after it's been sent? I feel like after clicking one, the other should disappear.

Google supports multi-user login. There are some annoyances with it, but it works pretty well for me.

To login to several Google accounts simultaneously I use private/incognito windows

There is a solution for this when it comes to the Push API spec (not for Safari though).

When a notification is received, the browser's Service Worker can send an "I got this" webhook event back to the sender. The sender can then decide if they wish to send a message to other browsers that user may have installed. Note that this does also require a user to be logged in to the site so they can be identified across both browsers.

Can't firefox have multiple user accounts? You'd have to swap back and forth though, which may be less convenient than alt-tabbing over to safari.

Firefox supports profiles, you can use the Profilist extension which makes it easy to switch between (I keep a separate profile for sites I use my work login on) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist/

You can also state which profile to use on startup, I have a shell alias setup for each of my 5 or so profiles, so I can just run ffx_work or ffx_personal etc

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