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    Push Notifications

    Hello forum,

    I've posted my first thread today and received some great feedback right away. Grateful for the resource of ExcelForum.

    However: somehow in my registration and setting up my account, I have enabled "push notifications". Working from Firefox on my laptop, each and every time I navigate to a page within excelforum.com, I am bombarded with a pop-up message covering my screen:

    Thank You For
    Subscribing To
    Push Notifications!
    Powered by : notifyfox.com

    Simultaneously, a miniature browser window opens with a progress circle whirling around. After 5 to 15 seconds it closes itself.

    I'm being absolutely annoyed out of my mind. I've scoured the User CP page to disable this, unsuccessfully.

    Can someone out there please help me?

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    Re: Push Notifications

    A couple of other contributors have commented about this recently:

    http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-...com-popup.html

    and:

    http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-...fyfox-com.html

    I don't know how you get rid of it, but it has not affected me so far.

    Pete

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    Re: Push Notifications

    Thanks Pete.

    I've just sorted it out. In the Firefox browser, I open Options, and click the Content tab. From there, under the Notifications heading is a "choose" button where you may list sites given permission to use push notifications. I clear that list, and I'm good to go.

    Relief.

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    Re: Push Notifications

    I'm glad you sorted it out, and thanks for feeding back.

    I'll provide a link to this thread in those other two.

    Pete

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    Re: Push Notifications.... back again :)

    This annoying Pop up thing “Pops up” from time to time. Some Threads on it have already been merged previously:

    http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...indow-tab.html
    http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-...on-pop-up.html

    It seems the Tech Team, Management, or whoever, experiment with this Pop Up from time to time. It seems to effect different browsers differently depending on settings etc. It is very inconsistent how it effects different users at different times.

    On one of my computers I have somehow been able to set a block on it. I am not quite sure how. Using the same Browser on another computer I could not get it blocked.

    http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...ml#post4492947

    One small consolation. In many cases it seems to take care of itself and stops bugging you after a few days. It seems to help to always chose “close” when / if you are asked from time to time to allow such notifications. It is a dynamic problem. Very likely the Tech Team, Management, or whoever, experiment with it from time to time, but they rarely tell us.
    On one of my computers it started again today. So likely it is the time of the Month again


    As others have noted, often you can play around with your browser settings to get it blocked

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