How to disable Google Chrome Notification System Tray Icon (new for latest vers)
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- Open Chrome, In the upper right corner of the browser window, click the Chrome menu
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- Click Settings > Show advanced settings (bottom of the settings page).
- In the "Privacy" section, click Content settings.
- In the dialog that appears, go to "Notifications" and choose one of the following:
- Allow all sites to show notifications: You’ll automatically see notifications from all websites.
- Ask when a site wants to show notifications: You’ll get an alert from Chrome whenever a site wants to show you notifications. This is the default setting.
- Do not allow any site to show notifications: You won’t see any notifications from websites.
You can also block any sites, apps, and extensions that already have permission to send you notifications. Just click Manage exceptions.
Expand the notification area on Windows
If you’re using Windows, you might not see the notification icon 
- Open Chrome.
- Go to the bottom right corner of your screen and click the up arrow.
- Click the notification icon
.
- In the bottom right corner of your screen, click the up arrow.
- Click the notification icon
- Click the gear icon
.
- Uncheck any website, extension, or app you don’t want notifications from.
.- At the top of your screen in the menu bar, click the notification icon
- Click the gear icon
- Uncheck any website, extension or app you don’t want to receive notifications from.
Chrome Desktop Notifications: We’ve updated your ability to manage which Chrome Notifications you receive and to hide or display the notifications icon. To learn more, please visit our help page here.
To manage your notifications: Open Notifications, click on the gear icon and deselect websites and apps for which you don't want to receive notifications.
To hide the notification icon in Windows: In your system tray, click the notification icon, Click Customize and Change the Google Chrome icon behavior to “Hide icon and notifications”. This will put the icon in the overflow area of the system tray.
To hide the notification icon in Mac: Click Chrome in your top menu bar. Select “Hide Notifications Icon” from the drop-down menu.
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- Open Chrome, In the upper right corner of the browser window, click the Chrome menu
- Click Settings > Show advanced settings (bottom of the settings page).
- In the "Privacy" section, click Content settings.
- In the dialog that appears, go to "Notifications" and choose one of the following:
- Allow all sites to show notifications: You’ll automatically see notifications from all websites.
- Ask when a site wants to show notifications: You’ll get an alert from Chrome whenever a site wants to show you notifications. This is the default setting.
- Do not allow any site to show notifications: You won’t see any notifications from websites.
You can also block any sites, apps, and extensions that already have permission to send you notifications. Just click Manage exceptions.
Expand the notification area on Windows
If you’re using Windows, you might not see the notification icon
- Open Chrome.
- Go to the bottom right corner of your screen and click the up arrow.
- Click the notification icon
- In the bottom right corner of your screen, click the up arrow.
- Click the notification icon
- Click the gear icon
- Uncheck any website, extension, or app you don’t want notifications from.
- At the top of your screen in the menu bar, click the notification icon
- Click the gear icon
- Uncheck any website, extension or app you don’t want to receive notifications from.
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