[garply]

Does this work on Linux?

[daviding]

I haven't seen it on Gmail and Chrome 10.0.642.2 dev yet, but the underlying webkit does work on Ubuntu et al.

You can test the feature in Chrome here:

http://slides.html5rocks.com/#notifications-api

edit: Just got the permission banner in gmail now - works fine.

[lpolovets]

Yes (I'm on Ubuntu 10.04)