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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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You will likely require a browser add-in and a server. You will have to write an add-in to detect the alert in the browser. Then send that alert to a webserver which sends an SMS using your cell phone's carrier Email to SMS gateway.

The webserver is required because a browser add-in can not send SMTP protocol but any server side language can do that. The add-in would do a simple post to the webserver, which would then be able to notify you.

I suggest starting here (developer.chrome.com) for writing an add-in.

Good luck!

(Ps) ignore everything about the chrome store, you can always side load your extension without going through that nasty shit.

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roger that. this may be the way to go. I have a few screen monitors to try, but that method is so dirty. Maybe on a laptop I never touch and can jjust sit idle, but that's not an option for a couple months.