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I have a website for work that sends browser notification on Firefox for Desktop (Windows) when my attention is needed. I am trying to figure out a way I can be alerted on a mobile phone (iOS or Android) when this website sends that browser notification on my desktop. It can be anything from a SMS message, to an email, to anything in between.

I have tried every mobile browser in the App Store and Play Store imaginable. The website does not prompt me for alerts on any mobile browser I have tried, desktop mode or not. I have searched for any premade userscripts for this website and none exist.

Search engine searches for this bring back nothing but results for someone who has a website or app and wants to offter push notifications. Not helpful.

Approximately 20 years ago, I had a shitskin create a program that monitored an area of my screen where I parked a sales alert program that notified me of commissions I was making. It took a cropped screenshot of the area of my desktop that changed, and sent me an email I could be alerted to on my T-Mobile Pocket PC. Even something like that could be helpful rigth now.

To summarize, I need to be alerted when my desktop browser has a notification (Firefox) from a certain domain. Even just monitoring my desktop/laptop for when it plays audio (there's an audio alert when the browser notification happens) or when pixels change on my desktop screen when the notification happens and a popup is temporarily displayed on my screen would help.

Thanks to anyone who can help with this.

I have a website for work that sends browser notification on Firefox for Desktop (Windows) when my attention is needed. I am trying to figure out a way I can be alerted on a mobile phone (iOS or Android) when this website sends that browser notification on my desktop. It can be anything from a SMS message, to an email, to anything in between. I have tried every mobile browser in the App Store and Play Store imaginable. The website does not prompt me for alerts on any mobile browser I have tried, desktop mode or not. I have searched for any premade userscripts for this website and none exist. Search engine searches for this bring back nothing but results for someone who has a website or app and wants to offter push notifications. Not helpful. Approximately 20 years ago, I had a shitskin create a program that monitored an area of my screen where I parked a sales alert program that notified me of commissions I was making. It took a cropped screenshot of the area of my desktop that changed, and sent me an email I could be alerted to on my T-Mobile Pocket PC. Even something like that could be helpful rigth now. To summarize, I need to be alerted when my desktop browser has a notification (Firefox) from a certain domain. Even just monitoring my desktop/laptop for when it plays audio (there's an audio alert when the browser notification happens) or when pixels change on my desktop screen when the notification happens and a popup is temporarily displayed on my screen would help. Thanks to anyone who can help with this.

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I'm dumb with this stuff but this seems like a job for ITTT If This Then That

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I had hope, but could not figure out services to make this work. I use IFTTT and have a Pro+ account. I just couldn't find a way for it to help. Damn.

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Huh. What you want seems straightforward

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So frustrating man. The best I have done is figured out how to customize the notification sound. If I'm home with my laptop, I can usually hear it summon me. But to be able to get any kind of alert, email, notification, sms, would be incredible. And I accomplished this 20+ years ago with a Windows XP computer and a fucking T-Mobile Pocket PC, although I would like to come up with something nicer than that setup. It worked, but that was before all the technology we have now.