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How to turn off ALL taskbar notifications?

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I am looking for a way to get rid of any Thunderbird’s own pop-up notifications in the taskbar (bottom-right edge) in Windows 10. I mean not only new email notifications, but also notifications when Thunderbird suddenly cannot connect to a server, when it suddenly can connect to a server, when some weird operation on some weird folder cannot be done, and dozens of other cases when Thunderbird distracts me with entirely unnecessary pop-ups. Setting mail.biff.show_alert to false didn’t help. Windows system settings didn’t help as well, because these notifications are Thunderbird’s custom ones, it doesn’t send them through default Windows means.

I am looking for a way to get rid of ''any'' Thunderbird’s own pop-up notifications in the taskbar (bottom-right edge) in Windows 10. I mean not only new email notifications, but also notifications when Thunderbird suddenly cannot connect to a server, when it suddenly can connect to a server, when some weird operation on some weird folder cannot be done, and dozens of other cases when Thunderbird distracts me with entirely unnecessary pop-ups. Setting mail.biff.show_alert to ''false'' didn’t help. Windows system settings didn’t help as well, because these notifications are Thunderbird’s custom ones, it doesn’t send them through default Windows means.

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Does it make any difference if you toggle alerts.useSystemBackend to true in Config. editor. This would make alerts show in Windows action center, instead of TB, if TB notifications were integrated with action center, which they aren't, unlike with Firefox.

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Does it make any difference if you toggle alerts.useSystemBackend to true in Config. editor. This would make alerts show in Windows action center, instead of TB, if TB notifications were integrated with action center, which they aren't, unlike with Firefox.

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sfhowes said
Does it make any difference if you toggle alerts.useSystemBackend to true in Config. editor. This would make alerts show in Windows action center, instead of TB, if TB notifications were integrated with action center, which they aren't, unlike with Firefox.

I have user_pref("alerts.useSystemBackend", true); in my prefs.js, but it seems to have no effect, Thunderbird is still using its own notifications. Windows 10. Thunderbird version 81.0b1.

Thoughts?

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sfhowes said
Does it make any difference if you toggle alerts.useSystemBackend to true in Config. editor. This would make alerts show in Windows action center, instead of TB, if TB notifications were integrated with action center, which they aren't, unlike with Firefox.

I have user_pref("alerts.useSystemBackend", true); in my prefs.js, but it seems to have no effect, Thunderbird is still using its own notifications. Windows 10. Thunderbird version 81.0b1.

Thoughts?

The preference currently has no effect because TB notifications are not integrated with Notification Center.