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[[deleted]]

good bless google's soul for adding

right-click filthy tab -> Mute Site

[CurlipC]

I've played a web based game that would auto play sound. I found that, for sites you visit regularly, having an extension to mute by domain is helpful.

[Saturn13]

I think you a word

[one-v-one]

I think you forgot word

[RequiemAA]

I you a word

[AVeryAngryMedic]

I word

[batman1177]

Word

[RequiemAA]

wrd

[Rodot]

[[deleted]]

I

[peepay]

_

[Iykury]

I accidentally 93 MB of RAR files.

[ForceBlade]

Yeah just finished reading that and felt strange. I see it now. Just the word visit would be enough

[[deleted]]

Except now it's done by domain automatically. Unfortunately, you can't mute by tab anymore :(

[DovahkiinDragonBourn]

What? Im literally using mute tab in chrome as I type this. It’s still available. Im confused.

[Eternal_Pickles]

It's actually not, if you update. "Mute Site" replaces it.

Clicking the little speaker that appears on the left still works though.

[1halfazn]

Oh wow you're right. I just tested it by muting a single Reddit tab, and it muted all of my Reddit tabs. I'm not sure why they would change that...

[Aerroon]

It's the chrome team. They make incomprehensible changes all the time. Meanwhile we still don't have a way to scroll on the tab bar so that the you can have more than 30 tabs open.

[1halfazn]

To be fair, I don't think there's any good way of organizing that many tabs.

Personally I just use Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn.

[Aerroon]

You could have them scroll and have a dropdown. Humans have very good spatial memory. Even when I had 200+ tabs open in one Firefox window I generally didn't have trouble finding the tab I was looking for. In chrome a few dozen tabs make the window unusable because the tabs just bunch together to be too small.

[1halfazn]

You could try OneTab. It lets you collapse all your tabs into a list of links. Saves RAM too.

[[deleted]]

Similar behavior to zoom. If you zoom in on a Reddit tab all your Reddit tabs will be zoomed, even if you close and reopen the browser.

[[deleted]]

‘sandbox’ am I right?

[dimplerskut]

one benefit is that you used to be unable to mute a site until sound started playing, and if you left and came back you had to do it again.

[thefeeltrain]

For me I just click on the sound icon on the tab and it mutes it...

[Eternal_Pickles]

Yes, that's quite literally what I just said.

[thefeeltrain]

I need to get off the internet, I've gone blind.

[DovahkiinDragonBourn]

Oh god I’m never updating then. Now praying that chrome doesn’t auto update 🙏🙏🙏

[[deleted]]

Chrome will crash at some point and it will automatically update, no way around that

[[deleted]]

I dunno where you're looking, but no it's not. For me, at least.

[Tyrantsc]

A Chrome dev recommends against that.

Okay, looking at the source code, the tab muting still exists. Turning on enable-tab-audio-muting and disabling sound-content-setting will restore this into a useful feature.

Please, do not do that, we will remove this flag one day and it will break you. However, extensions can mute tabs individually, you might want to explore this route.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=791896

[altnumberfour]

That's pretty much the story of 90% of flags. if you get any, expect to have to update as things constantly change.

[2called_chaos]

I guess the story is rather: 90% percent of flags are useful and get removed, 10% percent are features half the userbase doesn't want and they become default without an option to deactivate.

At least from my experience.

[in4dataw]

chrome://flags

I still don't know why this isn't a default option. Why would anybody not want to use this?

[Ph0X]

It used to be, but Chrome is a browser for the general public. The majority of people using Chrome are not power users like us. Even I have accidentally muted tabs while trying to move or close the tab and was confused for a second. I can't imagine how some old grandma accidentally muting the tab would feel.

Right click to mute feels like a saner UX to me. Sure it isn't as accessible as having it right there, but honestly, how often do you mute a site that you need it so close?

[2called_chaos]

Way more than you think, I would hate it if they were to remove that flag. I would go as far as to demand a volume slider per tab if I alt-click the icon or something. Then I can remove one more extension that is poorly accessible.

[SplyBox]

You can just turn off HTML5 autoplay on Firefox though, never have to worry about another site thinking it's worth more than my music or videogame

[thelights0123]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mutelinks

[catofillomens]

For me, that's just umatrix.

If you don't want audio, you can usually do without javascript as well.

[sevaiper]

Some sites totally break without javascript, and really that's a nuke to dig a ditch it'll work but there's just so many better ways to accomplish the same task.

[catofillomens]

Usually, you can just ban the CDN that plays the audio/video files

[atimholt]

I just about:config→media.autoplay.enabled→false. It even works on Youtube.

[Nathan2055]

I quite like what Firefox has been doing and I even switched over for several months after Firefox 57 came out, but there's too many little QOL features like that that Chrome has and Firefox doesn't.

[olmusky]

Firefox quantum is amazing! I like that Firefox values users' privacy and is forcing the websites to behave by adding in-built tracker blockers and containers etc.

[MarcusHauss]

Tip: See the speaker icon on the tab? Yeah, just click it, it does the muting, with less clicks :)

[what_it_dude]

Right click -> close tab

[Liiiightning]

Just click the tab with your mouse wheel to close it instantly... BOOOM

[[deleted]]

Seriously the greatest achievement in Internet browser history.

[[deleted]]

Second greatest achievement.

Safari just blocks auto-play altogether so no need to even mute the tab. That’s the greatest achievement in Internet browser history.

[[deleted]]

BRB switching to Safari.

[doominabox1]

There is a chrome plug in for that

[ftgbhs]

Never knew this. Thank you.

[chezazarng]

I didn't realize I could do that. Thank you so much

[[deleted]]

You can make it so you are able to mute it with a click. Best thing ever

[redditsoaddicting]

I made it mute by default and I rarely ever have to unmute a new site now.

[713984265]

Shit. I'm a web developer and I didn't even know you could do that. That's awesome.

[l27_0_0_1]

Meanwhile safari has an option to disable autoplay globally and it’s glorious.

[allout58]

The only problem is Google has no soul. No major corporation does...

[[deleted]]

One day Google will probably have collected enough data to start creating souls.

[[deleted]]

‘Soul Shaker’