Google Chrome web browser has been downloaded over 1 billion times and praised for its speed among its top features. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android and works well on Ubuntu-based distributions. For those who have not heard of Chromium before, it is a free and open-source software project developed by Google. Switching back to FireFox or Safari is looking more appealing every day.Chrome is built upon the open-source Chromium Project.
> Notifications doesn't do a thing either. Unfortunately, going to about:flags doesn't allow disabling of the desktop notification center (since it's managed in the main Chrome settings area now), and explicitly excluding all plugins inside Chrome's settings > Show advanced settings.
And when users point out that Chrome should use the system's built in notifications system (like every other mainstream app nowadays), Google says no, we'll use our confusing menubar icon instead. Google seems to think that every Chrome user on a Mac wants this non-UI-conforming precious-menu-bar-real-estate-consuming icon sucking up resources and precious space, without any way of disabling it. Nor does the standard trick of holding down the command key and dragging the icon off the menu bar. I know I can disable individual (or all) extensions from this Chrome Notification Center, but that doesn't make the icon go away. I have Notification Center (built into Mac OS X), and if I wanted to see spammy notifications from Chrome extensions, I would enable them there. Today, I received a mysterious notification from one of my Chrome extensions that popped up under a generic alarm bell icon in my Mac OS X menu bar: Update (7/20/14): You can finally disable the notifications icon by selecting "Hide Notifications Icon" from the Chrome menu:
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