@Holger Berndt

That still comes back to the original problem.

a) To do what you recommend, any application would have to create their
own notification system to do exactly what notify-osd does, but is
unable to interact with it.

b) While your app (and any other app that has it's own notification
system) tries to post at the same time, they either need to use the same
notify system or overwrite each other on the screen space

c) A fantastic idea would be a rewrite of the notify-osd type program to
better allow integration of numerous messages at once.  notify-osd
already has the ability built in to show two bubbles at once (for proof
of concept, I changed the volume from my keyboard and immediately
changed the song using my keyboard in Ryhtmbox.  Attaching screen shot)

d) This rebuilt program would still be incompatible with the official
notify-osd package, so the official package would have to go.

e) Matt Thomas @ post 29 has already threatened anyone who wants to
build a distributable notify program when he said "Ubuntu Software
Center will issue a warning if installing it involves uninstalling
anything else (such as notify-osd)"

f) That puts us back to the same spot we were in originally.  It appears
to me that Mozilla is using the specs as the notify-send man page still
gives information for using a time-out when sending to it.

At this point, my question would be, how far upstream is this bug?  It's
obvious that it affects all unpatched Ubuntu derivatives (I use Linux
Mint 7 - Gloria).   Was the software developed at the Ubuntu level?  If
so, it might be worth investing in looking for some of these libraries
directly from Debian, which if I understand correctly is upstream from
Ubuntu.

** Attachment added: "Proof in concept for multiple notify-osd messages from 
stock software"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47847095/Screenshot-2.png

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