Re: Intent to disable service workers and push in 52 ESR

This sounds like a good plan, Ben. IIUC, we're committing to support all our ESRs for a year, so anything we can do to make uplifts easier is sensible. Till brings up a good point about folks on older platforms, but it's likely they'll already have a degraded experience on many sites. I expect fut

Intent to Ship (Beta and Release): Push API

Hi all, In August, I sent an intent to ship for the Push API in Firefox 42 [1]. Push shipped in Dev Edition, but was disabled in beta and release. I'm happy to report that Push will ride the train to release in Firefox 44. Firefox 44 adds per-site notification permissions in Content preferences

Re: Intent to Ship: Push API

There are a few outstanding bugs for Firefox OS. The implementation bug is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1151180, if you'd like to follow along. This will eventually replace the existing Simple Push API. Unfortunately, we don't have a plan for Android yet. https://bugzilla.mozill

Intent to Ship: Push API

Hi, As of Firefox 42 (Desktop only), the Push API [1] will be turned on by default. This API allows an active service worker to receive server-sent push messages in the background. The worker can then show a notification to the user, or perform updates. Push has been developed behind the `dom.