Several major websites have offered push notifications with Chrome (and other supported browsers) for some time, including sites like Fa...
Several major websites have offered push notifications with Chrome (and other supported browsers) for some time, including sites like Facebook and eBay. Today Google+ is now supporting this feature, enabling users to receive notifications even when the site is not open.
You can enable this feature by opening your Google+ settings,
scroll down to the Notifications section, and enable "Get Google+ push
notifications on your web browser." That's it, you will begin to receive
said notifications as long as Chrome is running (including Chrome
running in the background). This is what they look like, for reference:
Comments on the source G+ post indicate some users are having trouble
receiving all their notifications. Two separate people on the AP team
tagged me in posts so I could take a screenshot, and while the
notification appeared when I checked manually, I did not receive a push
alert in Chrome. While I was in the middle of writing this post, I
received the above popup.
If you also run into problems, make sure you have notifications enabled for the categories you want from the G+ settings.
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