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I also desire to see this integration. The default XUL notification does
not fit in with Ubuntu's general polish. Perhaps this doesn't fit in
with the Natty (now Oneiric) timeline, but it seems like @chrisccoulson
has noted that something does need to happen. Can we rework this bug to
fit what needs to happen, or is there another bug already describing it?
Thunderbird, I understand, has received some love in this regard, but
Firefox needs a little bit of help too.

I would agree that a non-interactive notification without a way to get
to the file downloaded is generally useless in some general-user
contexts (though not in others, such as @danillo's use, or mine for that
matter). Still, messaging menu integration—I assume this would be the
proper place to put the other half of what is needed—cannot be that
hard, can it? Someone made Thunderbird do it.

In addition, the issue here is not third-party plugins, but
functionality. OP didn't ask specifically for xul-ext-notify, but for
integration with Ubuntu's mechanisms for displaying notifications to the
user. This could very easily, I think (in my ignorance of how it all
works), be simply put into Ubuntu's xul-ext-ubufox plugin, or added as
another if desired. Again, I understand that similar work has been done
on Thunderbird.

I'm changing the status from Invalid to Confirmed, since this is a) past
Natty, as mentioned by @chrisccoulson; and b) more or less confirmed, as
I understand Launchpad bug tracking, by both @danillo and now I.
Apologies in advance if this is not the right thing to do.

** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => Confirmed

** Summary changed:

- Firefox 4 does not use Ubuntu Notifications
+ Firefox does not use Ubuntu Notifications

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Title:
  Firefox does not use Ubuntu Notifications

Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox

  On Natty default install, Firefox displays a notification when a
  download is finished. Unfortunately it uses it's own notfication
  system instead of the Ubuntu Notification System.

  On Maverick you could use xul-ext-notfiy for notifications via notify-
  osd but in Natty this package is not available anymore.

  Please provide a way to use Ubuntu's nice notifications with Firefox 4
  in Natty and make it as default install too, because of consistency.

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