When should I receive an alert and/or notification?

Hi all,
New to Suite CRM (and CRM in general for that matter).
When should I receive an alert and/or notifications on site? The reason I ask is because I am not getting any.
I would expect that reception of an e-mai l(Assigned to a customer), lead creation by webform, meeting reminder should alert me somehow. It doe snot happen, so I wonder what I could set up incorrectly.
Oh yes, cron job works.

Thanks,
Rudolf

Notify on assignment is set on a user basis … goto admin user settings

Thanks, it is on.
I also clicked on “Enable Desktop Notifications” button in user settings

Still no notifications

Rudolf

It seems alerts work in Firefox, but not in Chrome.

Alert for meeting/call work. Should I get any notifications when e-mail arrives? There is none in either browser.

Thanks,

Desktop notifications works only for meetings and calls notification reminder, not on assignment, not on email received, etc.

best regards