Outlook Web App Notifications

Outlook Web App Notifications

Add system notifications capability to OWA (Outlook Web App). No configuration needed. System notifications about new emails or reminders are shown, the fav icon and OWA tab title are also updated with the unread email/reminder count.

What is Outlook Web App Notifications?
"Outlook Web App Notifications" is a Firefox extension that produces system notifications for new emails or reminders from Outlook Web App (OWA). There's no need for configuration. Additionally, it updates the fav icon and the tab title for your OWA with the count of unread emails or reminders. It does this by setting a timer task for every open OWA tab, counting unread emails or reminders, and updating the details as necessary.
Merlin
Stats
Rating: 3.94 (35)
Version: 1.9.7 (Last updated: 2019-10-04)
Creation date: 2014-12-01
Weekly download count: 17
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • notifications
Size: 61.74K
URLs: Website
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Summary

The extension is activated if you have an OWA tab open or when you open a new tab and log into OWA. No configuration needed. The extension doesn't need any OWA account information, doesn't read any private data and doesn't connect to the internet to send any data.

How it works: when new email or reminder arrives into OWA a system notification about this event will be shown. Also the fav icon and document title of the OWA tab are updated to show the number of unread emails/reminders. The fav icon is updated so that you have visual cues when OWA tab is pinned. Document title is updated so that even if Firefox is not the active window, you will see in the taskbar the number of unread emails/reminders. This helps in situations when you are not at the computer when new emails or reminders arrive and so you don't see the notifications and when you come back you just have to glance over the taskbar to see if there are any unread emails or reminders - no need to remember to activate Firefox window to check emails every time you come back to your computer.

How it really works: for each tab open that has the url in the form "http[s]://anything/owa/anything" or "https://outlook.live.com/mail/anything" or "https://outlook.office365.com/mail/anything" or "https://outlook.office.com/mail/anything" a timer task is set to fire every 1 second by default (configurable). The task counts the number of unread emails or reminders (using some css selectors) and if the count is different than the last one it updates the fav icon and document title and also if it's greater it shows a notification with the number of new unread emails/reminders.

With the release of version 1.6.0 users can define their own css selectors for unread emails and reminders detection. A use for this could be for example to monitor only some folders for unread emails. For OWA 2010 the css selector to monitor only Folder1 and Folder2 is: [fldrnm='Folder1'] + #spnUC #spnCV, [fldrnm='Folder2'] + #spnUC #spnCV To get the same result for OWA 2013 the css selector is: [aria-label='Folder Pane'] [title='Folder1'] ~ [id*='.ucount'], [aria-label='Folder Pane'] [title='Folder2'] ~ [id*='.ucount'] In case of X-OWA-ClientBuildVersion:"15.0.847.41" to monitor only Inbox the css selector is: span[title="Inbox"] ~ ._n_07 or for Office365 (suggested by Jefferson Scher here https://github.com/mihai-chezan/owa_notifications_firefox_extension/issues/11 ) span[title="Inbox"] + div>span

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Pros
  • Works very well
  • Works like a charm
  • Good stuff
Cons
  • Buggy
  • Reminder snooze time is in centiseconds
  • Multiple alerts for the same emails
  • Cannot filter by email folders
  • Doesn't work for Outlook Office 365
  • Needs improvement
Most mentioned
  • Works very well
  • Buggy
Recent reviews
by jahlberto, 2023-04-14
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Safety
Risk impact

Outlook Web App Notifications is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this add-on unless you absolutely trust this publisher.

Risk likelihood

Outlook Web App Notifications has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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