Prevent chrome.notifications API from hiding my notification after a few seconds

Question

I\'m doing around 1-2 notifications a day and it\'s important the user doesn\'t miss it. Is there a way of removing the auto close and only allowing the user to manually cl

Answer 1

This answer is obsolete; see this answer for an up to date solution involving requireInteraction flag (Chrome 50+).

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There is a slightly better (but again, hacky) solution.

When you call update on a notification that changes its priority, and the priority is 0 or above, the notification will be re-shown and the timer for hiding it reset.

So, you can show a notification with a high priority, (say, 2) and then repeat this on an interval shorter than time to hide the notification:

chrome.notifications.update(id, {priority : 1}, function(wasUpdated) {
  if(wasUpdated) {
    chrome.notifications.update(id, {priority : 2}, function() {});
  } else {
    // Notification was fully closed; either stop updating or create a new one
  }
});