Google Chrome: Mute sound in individual tabs. How to turn off audio on individual tabs in Chrome, Safari and Firefox How to turn off audio playback on a tab

More and more sites are autoplaying videos, so now is the perfect time to learn how to mute the sound playing on one of the many open tabs browser. I'll consider various ways, which you can use to disable tabs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Safari.

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Many browser users from the company Google already We are quite accustomed to the fact that new versions of Chrome are released very often; updating to them occurs unnoticed in background, and any significant changes in the interface occur very rarely.

However, from time to time Google 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 specific tab. A red Tab Recording icon indicates that your webcam is being accessed from this tab. But the Audio Playback icon indicates the tabs from which sound comes. These features have become unique to Chrome and have become a favorite of many. 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 indicator functionality 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 particularly closely integrated with Chrome, but not with Chromium.

Of all three indicators, of course, the one that is most often useful to users is Audio Playback - an indicator of voice tabs. When you have dozens of tabs open and suddenly one of the tabs starts making noise, then at that moment there is nothing more convenient than a pointer to the troublemaker. One problem: once you find out which tab is loud, you still need to switch to it to turn off the sound, and this is already inconvenient, as it distracts you from the current task.

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

If you enable it and restart the browser, your voting tab indicator will become clickable.

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

It’s strange that they only came up with such a logical idea now. It’s also unfortunate that the improvement described above is currently only available as an experiment in test Chrome versions.

It became the first browser to mark pages with audio content with a special icon. However, unfortunately, you won’t be able to quickly turn off the sound on sites with annoying self-reproducing videos. Another situation: in Chrome The sound disappeared on all Internet resources. Read below complete guide on turning off (unmuting) sound in the most popular web browser.

A little history: back in 2011, the hero of the note acquired an extension for working with 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 remains experimental for now. However, the 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 it 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 to 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 the tab with the right mouse button achieves the same effect → in the context menu, stop at " Mute the sound on the site". Clicking on the tab again, on the contrary, will turn on the sound.

Turn off (turn on) sound through settingsChrome

Everything would be fine, but constantly muting the sound on frequently visited pages is not entirely convenient. Therefore, I suggest through chrome://settings configure the player’s behavior on each specific web resource.

• IN additional settings find " Content Settings" (Section "Privacy and Security") → " Sound" → if in Chrome for some reason there is no sound, activate the " mode Allow sites to play sounds (recommended)".
• To block sound on selected domains, add them to the list "Sites with muted sound" → " Add".
• If the " Disable sounds on sites", add your favorite pages with videos to the white list by visiting "Allow" → " Add".

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With modern desktop web browsers - Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari - allow you to mute individual browser tabs in just a few clicks. Even Microsoft Edge allows you to mute a browser tab, although Microsoft can make this much easier.

This is useful if a tab starts playing music or video and you want to temporarily mute it. In most cases, this requires a click or two.

Google Chrome

To mute a browser tab in Google Chrome, simply click on the speaker icon that appears on the tab that is playing audio. You will see a line through it and the tab should be silent.

If this doesn't work, then open the Chrome flags page. To do this, enter in the address bar chrome://flags/ and press Enter. Here, find the “Tab audio muting UI control” flag and enable it.

You can also right-click on a tab and select "Mute Site," which will mute all future tabs from that site.

Mozilla Firefox

To mute a browser tab in Firefox, right-click the tab and select Mute Tab. Just like in Chrome, you'll see a crossed out speaker icon to the left of the "x" button in the browser tab.

Just like Chrome, it's easy to find which browser tabs are playing audio, just look for the speaker icon. You can also pre-mute a tab before it plays audio. You can also simply left-click on the speaker icon to toggle the sound on and off for that tab.

Apple Safari

In Safari on Mac, you can mute a tab in several ways. While the currently active tab is playing audio, a speaker icon will appear in Safari's settings panel. Click on it to turn the sound on or off for the tab.

You can also right-click on any tab and select "Mute Tab" or simply left-click on the speaker icon that appears on the right side of the tab.

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge also displays a speaker icon in browser tabs when that tab is playing audio. However, there is no option to mute a tab from within Edge.

However, there is a way to turn off the sound on separate tabs Edge browser. To do this, right-click the speaker icon in the notification area in the lower right corner of the screen and select Open Volume Mixer.

Scroll right in the Volume Mixer window and find the Edge browser tab that plays audio. The various browser tabs will be displayed here. Click the speaker icon under the page title to mute the sound.

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

Hopefully Microsoft will add more mute tab functionality to Microsoft Edge. At this point, this is the only option other than muting your computer or switching to a different browser.

Several years ago, Google Chrome became the first browser in which special indicators appeared on tabs, allowing the user to quickly navigate and understand which tab makes the sound. However, Chrome, unfortunately, does not allow you to quickly mute the sound. Today we will tell you how to fix this.

Of course, you may 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. Clicking on it turns off the sound, clicking on it again turns it back on. There is no need to go anywhere or open any menus.

You will be surprised, but this feature is also available in Chrome, but for some reason it is disabled by default.

Mute any Chrome tab in one click

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

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

That's it. 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 disabled will also become easier and faster.

Mute audio in future versions of Chrome

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

However, it would be even more convenient if the sound did not appear at all when it is not needed. Moreover, it is one thing to mute the sound on one Chrome tab, and another 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 configure their behavior (allow or block).

It is noteworthy that Chrome currently does not automatically play audio/video only in background tabs until they are clicked.

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

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