You manage notifications programmatically, using the notifications
API. To use this API you must request the notifications
permission in your manifest.json:
"permissions": ["notifications"]
You then use notifications.create
to create your notifications, as in this example from notify-link-clicks-i18n:
let title = browser.i18n.getMessage("notificationTitle");
let content = browser.i18n.getMessage("notificationContent", message.url);
browser.notifications.create({
"type": "basic",
"iconUrl": browser.extension.getURL("icons/link-48.png"),
"title": title,
"message": content
});
This code creates a notification with an icon, title, and message.
If the notification includes a call to action, you can listen for the user clicking the notification to call the function to handle the action:
browser.notifications.onClicked.addListener(handleClick);
If you are issuing calls to action through notifications, you will also want to define the optional notification id
, so you can figure out which call to action the user has selected.