[Tip] Disable Website Notifications Pop-ups in Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Opera

When you open websites in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge or Opera web browser, some websites show a pop-up message asking for permission to send/show notifications. These notifications are called web push notifications and are used by some websites to notify their visitors about new articles, etc.

Following are some screenshots of the notification permission pop-ups shown by websites in different web browsers:

Website notification pop-up in Google Chrome:

Website notification pop-up in Mozilla Firefox:

Website notification pop-up in Microsoft Edge:

Website notification pop-up in Opera:

Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Opera provide 2 buttons in the pop-up: Allow and Block. If you click on Allow button, the website will be allowed by the browser to send notifications to the user. If you click on Block button, the website will be blocked from sending notifications to the user.

Mozilla Firefox provides following 2 buttons: Allow Notifications and Not Now. If you click on Allow Notifications button, the website will be allowed by Firefox to send notifications to the user. If you click on Not Now button, the website will be blocked temporarily from sending notifications to the user. There is another button present in the pop-up “Never Allow” which can be accessed by clicking on the drop-down arrow. This “Never Allow” button completely blocks the website to send notifications to the user.

But these buttons given on the pop-up dialog box allow or block notifications sent by the current website only. If you open other websites which support push notifications, you’ll again receive the notification pop-up.

If you browse many websites and they show the notification permission pop-up, it might become annoying and can ruin your browsing experience.

Fortunately, these web browsers provide way to permanently disable these notification pop-ups. Once you block notifications feature, all websites will be prevented/restricted from sending notifications pop-ups.

If you also want to stop websites from sending push notifications pop-ups and alerts in your web browser, this tutorial will help you.

Following steps will help you in turning websites notifications on or off in your web browser:

1. Disable Websites Notifications Pop-ups in Google Chrome

1. Open Google Chrome, click on the 3-dots icon (main menu) present at the top-right corner of the window.

2. Now select “Settings” option from the main menu.

3. It’ll open Chrome settings page. Now scroll down to bottom and click on “Advanced” option.

4. Under Privacy and security section, click on “Content settings” option.

5. It’ll open Content settings page. Click on Notifications option.

6. The toggle button given next to “Ask before sending (recommended)” would be set to ON i.e. enabled by default.

Set the toggle button to OFF i.e. disabled and the option text will be changed to Blocked.

If you allowed some websites to send notifications in past, you’ll see their URLs/domain names listed on the page. If you don’t want those websites to send notifications any more, you can remove them.

That’s it. Now Chrome will block/stop all websites notifications pop-ups for you.

2. Disable Websites Notifications Pop-ups in Mozilla Firefox

1. Open Firefox and click on the Hamburger icon present at the right-side end of the toolbar to open the main menu. Now click on Options menu to open Firefox settings page.

Alternatively, you can direct option this page using about:preferences command in address bar.

2. Now under “Privacy & Security” tab, scroll down and go to “Permissions” section.

3. Now click on Settings button given next to “Notifications” option.

4. It’ll open Notification Permissions Settings window.

Enable “Block new requests asking to allow notifications” checkbox.

If you allowed some websites to send notifications in past, you’ll see their URLs/domain names listed in this window. If you don’t want those websites to send notifications any more, click on “Remove All Websites” button.

That’s it. Click on “Save Changes” button and now you’ll no longer receive notifications pop-ups in Mozilla Firefox.

3. Disable Websites Notifications Pop-ups in Microsoft Edge

1. Open Microsoft Edge, click on the 3-dots icon (main menu) present at the top-right corner of the window.

2. Now select “Settings” option from the main menu.

3. It’ll open Edge settings page. In left-side pane, click on “Site permissions” section.

4. In right-side pane, click on “Notifications” option.

5. The toggle button given next to “Ask before sending (recommended)” would be set to ON i.e. enabled by default.

Set the toggle button to OFF i.e. disabled and the option text will be changed to Blocked.

If you allowed some websites to send notifications in past, you’ll see their URLs/domain names listed on the page. If you don’t want those websites to send notifications any more, you can remove them.

That’s it. Now Microsoft Edge will block/stop all websites notifications pop-ups for you.

4. Disable Websites Notifications Pop-ups in Opera

1. Open Opera web browser, click on Opera button present at the top-left corner of Opera window and then click on Settings. You can also directly open Opera Settings page by pressing ALT+P keys together.

2. Now scroll down to bottom and click on “Advanced” link.

3. Under Privacy and security section, click on “Content settings” option.

4. It’ll open Content settings page. Click on Notifications option.

5. The toggle button given next to “Ask before sending (recommended)” would be set to ON i.e. enabled by default.

Set the toggle button to OFF i.e. disabled.

If you allowed some websites to send notifications in past, you’ll see their URLs/domain names listed on the page. If you don’t want those websites to send notifications any more, you can remove them.

That’s it. Now Opera will stop all websites notifications pop-ups for you.

5. Disable Websites Notifications Pop-ups in UWP Based Microsoft Edge

The built-in and default UWP based web browser of Windows 10 i.e. Microsoft Edge also supports web push notifications but Microsoft has not provided any option to disable notification pop-ups permanently.

You can only allow or block websites from sending notifications by clicking on Yes and No buttons respectively present on the notification permission pop-up. There is no way to completely disable the notification feature in Microsoft Edge.

6. Disable Websites Notifications Pop-ups in Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer doesn’t support web push notifications, so you don’t need to disable this feature. Enjoy IE.