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Groaaaann....

Please tell me that this sort of thing is not going to become the norm on websites...

This is the reason that I migrated away from facebook.

Text.

It works.



Facebook has browser/Growl notifications? Or do you mean their email notifications?

Of course, there will always be ways to turn it off or turn it on only for particular sites. See http://abcdefu.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/introducing-yip-an-u...


they have something that pops up at the bottom of your screen to tell you that something has happened on the page.

It only works when you actually AT facebook.

Having that sort of "functionality" follow me around sounds like some sort of hellish nightmare.


There's a simple method of avoiding that: don't install this.




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