Chrome native notifications are broken

[infokiller]

Chrome supports native Linux notifications for some time (article), and they worked for me before starting it with firejail.
Now it seems that Chrome uses its own notification system, even if I force it to use native Linux notifications.
After doing some testing, I think the issue is that chrome has nodbus in its profile (via chromium-common.profile).

Is there a way for me to disable the nodbus command using a local chrome profile (~/.config/firejail/chrome.profile)?
I know that I can rewrite the whole profile locally, but I would much rather have something like:

include /etc/firejail/google-chrome.profile
enable-dbus

Or something similar.

Thanks!

[Fred-Barclay]

Hi @infokiller Yes, you can create the file /etc/firejail/chrome.local with the line

ignore nodbus

and this should allow dbus access in the sandbox and (hopefully) native notifications for Chrome.
However, it's worthwhile noting that dbus can be used to escape the firejail sandbox, so hypothetically this lowers your security. You still have all the other features of firejail, but if the sandbox were successfully escaped then they might have little or no effect.

[infokiller]

Thanks a lot @Fred-Barclay!

[Fred-Barclay]

UPDATE: I'm sorry, the file name should be /etc/firejail/chromium-common.local that way no matter if you use chromium, or google-chrome stable, beta, or unstable, you'll get native notifications.

If you want Chrome-only, then /etc/firejail/google-chrome.local is the way to go.