Richer notifications coming to Chrome

When you’re surfing the web, you can get so immersed that you might not realize you’re late for a meeting or that someone messaged you in another chat window. A couple years ago, Google created a way for notifications to appear outside the browser window. Starting in today’s Beta channelrelease, they’re enabling Chrome apps and extensions to show richer notifications with a revamped user interface (as well as under the hood — developers can learn more on the Chromium blog).

Google has designed these notifications to be beautiful, useful and engaging. They can display formatted text and images, and can include actions directly inside the pop-up (so you can respond to that email right away).

Missed a bunch of notifications while you were taking a coffee break? No problem — you can open up the notification center to see them all in one place.

Notification Center on Windows

Notification Center on ChromeOS

You can also disable notifications from any source whenever you wish, for those times when you want some peace and quiet.