{"id":58698,"date":"2014-01-17T21:01:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T19:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=58698"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:56:25","slug":"google-kills-its-notifier-service-pushes-users-to-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-kills-its-notifier-service-pushes-users-to-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Google kills its Notifier service, pushes users to Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s diminutive <a title=\"Gmail Notifier\" href=\"http:\/\/gmail-notifier.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Notifier utility<\/a> has been quietly discontinued. Notifier first debuted in 2005 as an app that lived in your Mac&#8217;s menu bar or Windows system tray and served you alerts for Gmail and Google Calendar reminders. Now with smartphones and Chrome&#8217;s own notification center, the Notifier app and service are no longer necessary and have been discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>Google is also urging users of Notifier to migrate to the company&#8217;s <a title=\"Google Chrome news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/google-chrome\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome<\/a> browser, which features its own push notification service. Alerts from Gmail and Google Calendar are displayed with popup cards that you can interact with, which is much more powerful than Notifier, which checked for new alerts every 2 minutes. \u00a0Chrome&#8217;s notifications will only get more powerful as Google works to incorporate more services like Google Now, which can be found in the latest <a title=\"Google Now appears in Chrome alpha\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-now-appears-in-chrome-alpha\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome Canary alpha<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Uninstall Google Notifier\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/mail\/answer\/10960?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Support<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a title=\"The Verge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/1\/16\/5316748\/google-quietly-kills-off-its-notifier-service-for-mail-and-calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-now-appears-in-chrome-alpha\">Google Now appears in Chrome alpha<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/microsoft-will-provide-windows-xp-security-updates-until-july-14-2015\">Microsoft will provide Windows XP security updates until July 14, 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/chrome-for-android-and-ios-updated-with-data-compression\">Chrome for Android and iOS updated with data compression<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s diminutive Notifier utility has been quietly discontinued. Notifier first debuted in 2005 as an app that lived in your Mac&#8217;s menu bar or Windows system tray and served you alerts for Gmail and Google Calendar reminders. Now with smartphones and Chrome&#8217;s own notification center, the Notifier app and service are no longer necessary and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-kills-its-notifier-service-pushes-users-to-chrome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google kills its Notifier service, pushes users to Chrome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-58698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331525,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58698\/revisions\/331525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58698"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=58698"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=58698"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=58698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}