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Google Chrome Getting Audio Indicators To Show You Noisy Tabs

Posted by Unknown on from the mumbling-in-dutch dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google is working on identifying Chrome tabs that are currently playing audio (or recording it). The feature is expected to show an audio animation if a tab is broadcasting or recording sound. François Beaufort spotted the new feature, a part of which is already available in the latest Chromium build."

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  1. Good idea by swinferno · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This could actually be useful...hopefully FF will follow

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    1. Re:Good idea by mwvdlee · · Score: 5, Interesting

      How about muting all tabs except the one currently open with the option of enabling/disabling any tab explicitely?

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    2. Re:Good idea by fragfoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I find these ideas awesome, another thing browsers could is to color code tabs by cpu/memory usage or something. So you know which tab is slowing you down.

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    3. Re:Good idea by mbstone · · Score: 4, Interesting

      How about identifying noisy websites in Google search results?

    4. Re:Good idea by agapeton · · Score: 1, Interesting

      This is a VERY good idea!

  2. Flash and plugin sounds by etnoy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I remember this being discussed on the FF bugzilla years ago. It was seen as a very good idea, but the issue was (at least then) that most audio is played by Flash applets which the browser can't control, thus making it useless in most scenarios. I wonder how Chrome tackles the issue of plugin content playing audio.

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  3. A website that records sound? by damn_registrars · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't know that I have ever encountered such a site. Not that one couldn't exist, but I've never seen one. What am I missing out on?

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