How to Disable Push Notifications on Chrome and Firefox

Push notifications are a way for websites to show you different activities on their websites. Some news websites may ask permission for push notifications to send you the latest news updates on your PC. Other websites may use push notifications to send you different offers, updates, or important information. While push notifications can be a good way to stay updated about the website you most often visit, they can become annoying and intrusive.

Especially when a website starts sending you unnecessary notifications about something irrelevant at regular intervals. In fact, as per the IT security consulting firm, Securing, web push notifications are also used for user-targeted attacks. In this case, you need to opt to disable the push notifications.

In this guide, we will share with you the steps you need to disable push notifications on Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. We have chosen these two browsers as they are popular and most widely used. Let’s jump right into it.

Disable push notifications in Google Chrome

Push notifications can be disabled for a specific website, multiple websites, or from all sites and block new requests. Below, we have listed the steps for all the different scenarios.

Disable push notifications for a specific website

1. Open the website in the Chrome browser.
2. Click on the Site settings button on the address bar as shown in the screenshot below.
3. From the drop-down, either toggle off the Notifications option or click the Reset permission button below Notifications.

The above steps let you disable push notifications from a specific website. What if you want to disable push notifications from multiple websites? For that, check out the next section.

Disable push notifications from multiple websites

1. Launch Google Chrome.
2. Click on the 3-dot menu icon on the top-right corner.
3. Select Settings from the list of options that appear.
4. Choose Privacy and Security from the left pane.
5. Click on Site Settings on the right side.
6. Scroll down to the bottom and select Notifications under the Permissions section.
7. Under the Customized Behaviors section, click on Add next to Not allowed to send notifications. Using this, you can add the full addresses of the website whose notifications you want to block by default.

Google Chrome offers you the option to disable push notifications from multiple websites at once. However, for that, you need to follow the above steps and manually enter the full address of the websites from which you wish to block the push notifications. Thankfully, there is another way that lets you block push notifications from all sites and new requests, which we have discussed in the section below.

Disable push notifications from all sites and block new requests

1. Launch Google Chrome.
2. Click on the 3-dot menu icon on the top-right corner.
3. Select Settings from the list of options that appear.
4. Choose Privacy and Security from the left pane.
5. Click on Site Settings on the right side.
6. Scroll down to the bottom and select Notifications under the Permissions section.
7. Under the Default behavior section, choose the Do not allow sites to send notifications option.

Once you have selected this option, Google Chrome won’t send you any push notification requests from any website.

Disable push notifications in Mozilla Firefox

Disable push notifications from specific websites

1. Open Mozilla Firefox and visit the website from which you don’t wish to receive push notifications.
2. Click on the notifications button on the address bar as shown.
3. Choose the Always block option to block push notifications from the website.

Block push notifications from multiple websites

1. Launch Firefox.
2. Click on the 3-line menu icon and choose Settings from the drop-down menu.
3. Select Privacy & Security from the left pane, and on the right side, click Settings next to Notifications.
4. In the resulting window, you will see a list of all the websites on which you have enabled push notifications.
5. Simply select the Block option by clicking the button under the Status section if it is set to Allow.

Disable push notifications from all websites and block new requests

1. Launch Firefox.
2. Click on the 3-line menu icon and choose Settings from the drop-down menu.
3. Select Privacy & Security from the left pane, and on the right side, click Settings next to Notifications.
4. In the resulting window, you need to press the Remove All Websites and also check the box for Block new requests asking to allow notifications.
5. Press Save changes.

Keep those pesky notifications away when you are browsing

The above steps let you easily manage or disable the push notifications from websites when you are browsing on Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. We have a dedicated guide that will help you to make Google Chrome a bit faster on your PC and mobile. Similarly, you can check out our guide, which lists some effective ways to optimize Firefox for best performance. Let us know in the comments below if you found this guide helpful, and also, do let us know if you use push notifications or not.