Adding a mute feature to the tab. What to do if there is no sound on the computer: useful life hacks

Read how to quickly turn off the sound on a tab in the browser. For example Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari by Apple, Microsoft Edge. Modern web browsers allow you to mute individual tabs in just a few steps. Even "Microsoft Edge" gives you this option, although "Microsoft" could make this procedure a little easier.

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This is useful if a tab starts playing music or videos automatically when you open it and you want to disable it temporarily. In most cases, it just takes a click or two. If you want a more reliable solution that can automatically disable tabs for you, then we have already described it earlier (How to automatically disable the autoplay feature in Chrome And Firefox).

Google Chrome browser

To mute the sound on a browser tab Google Chrome, just click the speaker icon that appears on the tab playing the media file. A line will appear across the speaker and the tab will be muted.

You can also just click right click mouse on tab and select item "Disable Site", This feature will disable the playback of audio and video files on all tabs for this site that will be opened in the future.

Mozilla Firefox Browser

To disable sound in a browser tab Firefox, right click on the tab and select "Hide sound in tab". As in Chrome, you will see a crossed-out speaker icon to the left of the button "x" on a browser tab.

You can easily determine which browser tabs are playing media files, just find the speaker icon on them. And you can easily turn it off before it starts. The easiest way is to left-click on the speaker icon on a tab to quickly mute or unmute it.

Apple's Safari browser

IN Safari on Mac You can mute the sound in a tab in several ways. While the currently active tab is playing sound, in the settings panel Safari the speaker icon will appear. Click on it to turn the sound on or off.

You can also right-click on any tab and select Mute from the pop-up menu.

Microsoft Edge browser

"Microsoft Edge" also displays a speaker icon on browser tabs when that tab plays sound. But unfortunately, there is no easy way to actually turn off the sound on them.

However, there is a way to disable individual browser tabs. To do this, right-click the speaker icon in the notification area at the bottom right corner of the screen and select .

The window that opens will display various browser tabs that play sound. Click the speaker icon below the page name to turn it off.

To turn on the sound, you need to close and reopen your browser tab, or come back here and click the speaker icon again.

We hope that Microsoft one day add to browser Edge more integrated on/off function. On this moment, while this is the only option but to completely turn off the sound on the computer or switch to using a different browser.

Many browser users from Google are already quite accustomed to the fact that new versions of Chrome are released very often, updates to them occur quietly in the background, and at least some significant changes in the interface occur very rarely.

However, Google from time to time still throws interesting new ideas into the world's most popular web browser. For example, in version 32, which was released at the very beginning of the year, a unique feature appeared with indicators on the tabs:

Then Google engineers provided three types of indicators. Tab Capture alerts the user if screen content is being captured from a particular tab. The red Tab Recording icon indicates that this tab is accessing your webcam. But the Audio Playback icon indicates the tabs from which the sound comes from. These chips have become unique to Chrome and many have managed to fall in love with. Users are even asking the creators of other browsers to do something similar.

For example, on where Microsoft collects wishes for future Windows versions and IE, the requirement to make the same indicators for Internet Explorer- one of the most popular.

It is also interesting that the functionality of indicators is not yet available not only in Firefox or IE, but also in browsers based on Chromium - Opera or, for example, . This is directly related to the flash player, which, thanks to Google and Adobe, is especially tightly integrated with Chrome, but not with Chromium.

Of all the three indicators, of course, the most often useful to users is Audio Playback - an indicator of voiced tabs. When you have several dozen tabs open and suddenly one of the tabs starts to make a sound, then at that moment there is nothing more convenient than a pointer to the troublemaker. One problem: once you know which tab is voicing, you still need to go to it to turn off the sound, which is already inconvenient, as it distracts you from the current business.

And only now Google has noticed this flaw. Currently in Canary and Dev on the service page chrome://flags (entered in the address bar) you can find absolutely new experiment: "Enable tab audio muting UI control".

If you turn it on and restart your browser, your voiced tabs indicator will become clickable.

Clicking on the indicator - mute the sound in the selected tab, that is, it is no longer necessary to switch to it.

It is strange that such a logical idea was thought of only now. Annoying is the fact that so far the improvement described above is available only as an experiment in test Chrome versions.

He was the first browser to decide to mark pages with audio content with a special icon. However, you will not be able to quickly turn off the sound on sites with annoying self-playing videos, alas. Another situation: in Chrome Lost sound on all network resources. Read below complete guide to disable (enable) the sound in the most popular web browser.

A bit of history: back in 2011, the hero of the note got an extension for working with the MuteTab sound. Three years later, Google engineers added a corresponding sound indicator (flag) to the browser. Other specialized applications went a little further, making the indicator clickable, and only in Chrome this useful functionality is still experimental. However, injustice is easily corrected.

Turn off (turn on) the sound on the tab

For this to happen, type in the address bar chrome://flags → "Enter" → next, through the search field, find the option " Tab audio muting UI control" (or immediately copy to the address bar chrome://flags/#enable-tab-audio-muting → "Enter") and set the switch to " Turn on" ("Enabled").

• Restart the browser by clicking the button of the same name (" Relaunch now"), see screenshot.
• Open on YouTube any video and at the top of the tab, click on the speaker icon - the sound will turn off. By the way, clicking on a tab with the right mouse button achieves the same effect → in the context menu, stop at " Mute website". Clicking on the tab again, on the contrary, will turn on the sound.

Turn off (turn on) the sound through the settingsChrome

Everything would be fine, but constantly muffling the sound on frequently visited pages is not very convenient. Therefore, I suggest through chrome://settings customize the behavior of the player on each specific web resource.

• IN advanced settings find " Content settings" (section "Privacy and security") → " Sound" → if in Chrome for some reason there is no sound, activate the mode " Allow websites to play sounds (recommended)".
• To block sound on selected domains, add them to the "Sites with muted" list → " Add".
• If the " Turn off sounds on websites", whitelist your favorite video pages by visiting "Allow" → " Add".

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A few years ago, Google Chrome became the first browser to introduce special indicators on the tabs, allowing the user to quickly navigate and understand which tab makes a sound.

However, Chrome, unfortunately, does not allow you to quickly turn off the sound. Today we'll show you how to fix it.

Of course, you have already seen the indicator icon before:

However, all this is in any case extra clicks. Other web browsers, including Firefox, Opera, and even Yandex Browser have gone a little further here: the sound indicator is clickable on the nickname. Clicking on it turns off the sound, repeated - turns it back on. No need to go anywhere and open any menus.

You will be surprised, but Chrome also has such a function, but for some reason it is disabled by default.

Turn off the sound on any Chrome tab in one click

The function is located not in the main browser settings, but on the service page chrome://flags. It's called "Tab audio muting UI control", you can find it with the built-in search by starting to type, for example, "muting":

Enable the option, after which you will need to restart Chrome:

That's all. Now you can turn off the sound in Google Chrome on any of its tabs in one click.

Accordingly, turning the sound back on this tab, if it was turned off, will also become easier and faster.

Mute sound in future versions of Chrome

Of course, turning off the sound in one click without going to the tabs where it plays, and without even opening the context menu of these tabs, is convenient.

However, it would be even more convenient if the sound did not appear at all when it was not needed. Moreover, it is one thing to turn off the sound on one Chrome tab, and the other is to do this operation constantly.

Google is thinking about this and in future versions of Chrome will add special settings for the flash player and sound to the program interface.

As a result, the user on each specific site will be able to customize their behavior (allow or block).

Notably, Chrome currently doesn't automatically play audio/video only on background tabs until they've been clicked. However, in future versions, the program may stop playing any multimedia content by default, unless you explicitly click on the player in which it is located.

Thus, an extraneous unexpected sound will bother you much less often and in most cases you simply won’t have to turn it off.

A few years ago, Google Chrome became the first browser to introduce special indicators on the tabs, allowing the user to quickly navigate and understand which tab makes a sound. However, Chrome, unfortunately, does not allow you to quickly turn off the sound. Today we'll show you how to fix it.

Of course, you could already see the indicator icon before:

However, all this is in any case extra clicks. Other web browsers, including Firefox, Opera, and even Yandex Browser, have gone a little further here: the sound indicator is clickable on the nickname. Clicking on it turns off the sound, repeated - turns it back on. No need to go anywhere and open any menus.

You will be surprised, but Chrome also has such a feature, but for some reason it is disabled by default.

Turn off the sound on any Chrome tab in one click

The function is located not in the main browser settings, but on the service page chrome://flags. It's called "Tab audio muting UI control", you can find it with the built-in search by starting to type, for example, "muting":

Enable the option, after which you will need to restart Chrome:

That's all. Now you can turn off the sound in Google Chrome on any of its tabs in one click.

Accordingly, turning the sound back on this tab, if it was turned off, will also become easier and faster.

Mute sound in future versions of Chrome

Of course, turning off the sound in one click without going to the tabs where it plays, and without even opening the context menu of these tabs, is convenient.

However, it would be even more convenient if the sound did not appear at all when it was not needed. Moreover, it is one thing to turn off the sound on one Chrome tab, and another to do this operation all the time.

Google is thinking about this and in future versions of Chrome will add special settings for the flash player and sound to the program interface.

As a result, the user on each specific site will be able to customize their behavior (allow or block).

Notably, Chrome currently doesn't automatically play audio/video only on background tabs until they've been clicked.

However, in future versions, the program may stop playing any multimedia content by default, unless you explicitly click on the player in which it is located.

Thus, an extraneous unexpected sound will bother you much less often and in most cases you simply won’t have to turn it off.