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god forbid you leave firefox set to never remember history, you don't get the option to block sites forever. So every time you hit a reddit link it will gleeful

god forbid you leave firefox set to never remember history, you don't get the option to block sites forever. So every time you hit a reddit link it will gleefully present you with a prompt about notification permissions.

ecshafer 8y ago
Wow thank you for pointing that out. I have always set my browsers to never remember history, if I want to remember it, I will use a bookmark. Consequently Reddit mobile will totally spam me, making it even more unusable than before.
- joecool1029 8y ago
  Alternatively you can workaround the issue by telling firefox to delete history on close. This will allow you to block notifications per-session.
orev 8y ago
It seems to have gotten much worse on reddit lately. I would not be surprised if that is what pushed them to start to do something about it.
zaarn 8y ago
Firefox has a "Block new requests asking to allow notifications" checkbox in the Notifications settings under Privacy. This can be done for all prompts and will permanently disable all prompts unless you whitelist a website, essentially.
bugmen0t 8y ago
That's not entirely true. Remembering history is also different from remembering permissions. Firefox should persist those independently from actual URLs in browsing history. And there's a button in settings where you can disable permission prompts for notifications globally.
- joecool1029 8y ago
  > That's not entirely true. Remembering history is also different from remembering permissions. Explain how it isn't true. I described a behavior with Firefox that's problematic and caused by 'automatic private browsing', which is what you get when you set 'never remember history'. When this is done it does not track state separately as you say. Related: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1140700 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1140700 Also, for more fun and unexpected behavior with that mode: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513421 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513421
swebs 8y ago
You could use this extension to always redirect to old reddit, which doesn't have any notification shenanigans. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

ecshafer 8y ago

Wow thank you for pointing that out. I have always set my browsers to never remember history, if I want to remember it, I will use a bookmark. Consequently Reddit mobile will totally spam me, making it even more unusable than before.

joecool1029 8y ago
Alternatively you can workaround the issue by telling firefox to delete history on close. This will allow you to block notifications per-session.

orev 8y ago

It seems to have gotten much worse on reddit lately. I would not be surprised if that is what pushed them to start to do something about it.

zaarn 8y ago

Firefox has a "Block new requests asking to allow notifications" checkbox in the Notifications settings under Privacy. This can be done for all prompts and will permanently disable all prompts unless you whitelist a website, essentially.

bugmen0t 8y ago

That's not entirely true. Remembering history is also different from remembering permissions. Firefox should persist those independently from actual URLs in browsing history. And there's a button in settings where you can disable permission prompts for notifications globally.

joecool1029 8y ago
> That's not entirely true. Remembering history is also different from remembering permissions. Explain how it isn't true. I described a behavior with Firefox that's problematic and caused by 'automatic private browsing', which is what you get when you set 'never remember history'. When this is done it does not track state separately as you say. Related: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1140700 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1140700 Also, for more fun and unexpected behavior with that mode: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513421 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513421

swebs 8y ago

You could use this extension to always redirect to old reddit, which doesn't have any notification shenanigans. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...