# Google Chrome extension for discourse notifications
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-chrome-extension-for-discourse-notifications/34496
**Category:** Extras
**Created:** [October 14, 2015, 10:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-chrome-extension-for-discourse-notifications/34496 "2015-10-14T10:56:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@alep](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alep)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2016, 7:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-chrome-extension-for-discourse-notifications/34496/21 "2016-04-19T07:49:02Z")
I’ve opened a new issue on github [Increase font size · Issue #22 · alepolidori/chrome-discourse-notifications · GitHub](https://github.com/alepolidori/chrome-discourse-notifications/issues/22)
Please leave a comment if it is not correct
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### Author:  [@alep](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alep)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2016, 7:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-chrome-extension-for-discourse-notifications/34496/22 "2016-04-19T07:55:52Z")
I’ve opened issues
Please comment it if you need
> [@meglio](#):
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> Issue 1
[https://github.com/alepolidori/chrome-discourse-notifications/issues/20](https://github.com/alepolidori/chrome-discourse-notifications/issues/20)
> [@meglio](#):
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> Issue 2
[https://github.com/alepolidori/chrome-discourse-notifications/issues/23](https://github.com/alepolidori/chrome-discourse-notifications/issues/23)
> [@meglio](#):
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> Issue 3
[https://github.com/alepolidori/chrome-discourse-notifications/issues/21](https://github.com/alepolidori/chrome-discourse-notifications/issues/21)
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### Author:  [@alep](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alep)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2016, 8:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-chrome-extension-for-discourse-notifications/34496/23 "2016-04-19T08:07:58Z")
Thanks @alefattorini
[djfarrelly](https://twitter.com/djfarrelly) has already suggested me the same thing [here](https://github.com/alepolidori/chrome-discourse-notifications/commit/d0b4a885e484a4ab9ff1584d9d73ffdfd63f78a4#commitcomment-11921075), but I had no time.
I hope to do so soon 😉
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### Author:  [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2016, 8:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-chrome-extension-for-discourse-notifications/34496/24 "2016-04-19T08:22:31Z")
@alep
Could you give a brief explanation of the technical implementation - how does this extension poll the site for notifications? Does it keep the session constantly online, or does the pluging check-in to the site periodically for new notfications?
Recently I’ve had some messagebus load issues under very high traffic spikes, so I am concerned what it will do to my server load, if all my loyalists install this plugin.
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### Author:  [@alep](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alep)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-chrome-extension-for-discourse-notifications/34496/25 "2016-04-20T14:09:06Z")
> [@ljpp](#):
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> Could you give a brief explanation of the technical implementation - how does this extension poll the site for notifications? Does it keep the session constantly online, or does the pluging check-in to the site periodically for new notfications?
It gets some user data at boot, for example to get the user id.
Then it uses message bus to receive notifications.
@sam gave me the advice in this [post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chrome-extension-to-show-unread-count/27853/12)
> [@ljpp](#):
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> Recently I’ve had some messagebus load issues under very high traffic spikes, so I am concerned what it will do to my server load, if all my loyalists install this plugin.
Probably you may find some useful information [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/analyzing-discourse-performance-using-nginx-logs/30117)
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### Author:  [@alep](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alep)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2016, 8:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-chrome-extension-for-discourse-notifications/34496/26 "2016-05-01T08:59:05Z")
@meglio I’ve implemented it with a new option. What do you think ?
The new version is 1.1.1
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### Author:  [@theomniaproject](https://meta.discourse.org/u/theomniaproject)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-chrome-extension-for-discourse-notifications/34496/27 "2017-07-27T19:33:02Z")
I have discourse running on a static IP address on GCP but no FQDN. This plugin will not accept the IP address as a URL. I would be nice if that were rectified. Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@alep](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alep)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2017, 6:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-chrome-extension-for-discourse-notifications/34496/28 "2017-08-08T06:43:10Z")
@theomniaproject could you please open a bug into the github project [Issues · alepolidori/chrome-discourse-notifications · GitHub](https://github.com/alepolidori/chrome-discourse-notifications/issues) ?
Thx for reporting! 🙂
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-chrome-extension-for-discourse-notifications/34496/30 "2017-08-17T16:35:11Z")
Notifications do not appear to be working properly. Installed… have the latest discourse build and chrome.
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### Author:  [@alep](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alep)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-chrome-extension-for-discourse-notifications/34496/32 "2017-08-22T20:07:17Z")
Hi @8BIT, I know that it does not work and I asked here to get some advices [https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-getting-session-current-json/67640/8](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-getting-session-current-json/67640/8)
I was on vacation, so I’ll try to investigate ASAP…
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Vega](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Justin_Vega)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-chrome-extension-for-discourse-notifications/34496/33 "2020-03-01T16:51:49Z")
Has this plugin been abandoned? My interest has peaked. 🙂
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