But Microsoft’s done one better and even offers a keyboard shortcut.
Which means, yes, it inherits the Chrome tab mute feature. If you’re on a Windows PC, you might not be using Google Chrome, but the latest generation of Microsoft Edge turns out to be built atop Chromium, the software core of Chrome. Better yet, you don’t even have to bring the offending tab to the front to mute it! Fortunately with some other browsers, notably Google Chrome, it not only shows you which tab is producing the music, but lets you mute that tab too. Either way, both solutions let you mute a tab without having to switch to it first, which is what really matters when you’re scrambling to silence that annoying tab that decided to start playing for no apparent reason.I definitely share your pain in this instance and spend much of my time with my computer in mute for just this reason who wants to be bothered by auto-play advertisements with audio content? Some browsers don’t seem to realize that this is something that people don’t like and you’re on your own. In fact, it’s still there (the #enable-tab-audio-muting flag), and makes it possible to mute a tab with just a single click, if you prefer that method.įor whatever reason, Google has gone with the implementation that requires two clicks out-of-the-box. An option in chrome://flags/ was available, but it wasn’t on by default. While Chrome has had audio indicators for more than a year now, it hasn’t let you easily mute tabs by default, until now. Firefox 42 beta not only shows a speaker icon if a tab is producing sound, but allows you to mute (speaker icon gets crossed out) or unmute the given tab with a single click. Mozilla is also adding similar functionality to its browser, which still doesn’t have any sort of tab audio indicators.
Now Google is finally taking the feature to the next level. Back in February 2013, we first heard that audio indicators were coming to Chrome, and indeed, the feature arrived in January 2014 with the launch of Chrome 32.
The ability to mute individual tabs has been available through browser add-ons and extensions for a while, but users want the option built into the browser.
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