I feel like it’s the OS’s job to provide the means to mute or defer notifications in certain contexts, and the games jobs to enter that context in full screen.
But the browser is just an app like any other. Apps have notification systems tied to the OSs notification system. Each app independently decides what they think it important to take advantage of that notification system.
The OS should have a notification system that supports mute/deferrals, and other apps, games, media players or whatever else the use wants should use that system for the users benefit.
I feel like a year ago, Windows was much better at not interrupting. There is literally a setting to engage Do No Disturb mode when playing a game. But it definitely seems to have stopped doing that from my experience despite that being a default setting and still enabled on my gaming rig. Something changed, and I doubt it’s every game.
I feel like it’s the OS’s job to provide the means to mute or defer notifications in certain contexts, and the games jobs to enter that context in full screen.
I feel like it’s not the browsers job to congratulate me for installing an update that includes new features
I think that’s a fair position.
But the browser is just an app like any other. Apps have notification systems tied to the OSs notification system. Each app independently decides what they think it important to take advantage of that notification system.
The OS should have a notification system that supports mute/deferrals, and other apps, games, media players or whatever else the use wants should use that system for the users benefit.
I feel like a year ago, Windows was much better at not interrupting. There is literally a setting to engage Do No Disturb mode when playing a game. But it definitely seems to have stopped doing that from my experience despite that being a default setting and still enabled on my gaming rig. Something changed, and I doubt it’s every game.