Google Chrome Getting Audio Indicators To Show You Noisy Tabs

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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Re:Good idea

[IndustrialComplex]

The problem is that this is Google. The company that releases Android, has all the incentive in the world to integrate their products, yet does things like this:

1. Google Talk does not have an option to sync between devices. I don't like 'ghost' half conversations if I was chatting with someone on my phone and I sit down at my computer. Even worse, when sitting at your computer you will discover that the google talk client, will not sync with the google chat plugin for gmail... on the SAME PC! I'll be checking my email, have a message popup and not realize that it popped up in my gmail instead of the client, so closing gmail kills the conversation...

2. Google voice SMS. How can you have an android phone, and not have better integration of SMS messaging. Give me the option to direct 'SMS style messages' to the client of my choosing. 90% of apps that handle SMS notifications break when faced with google voice. Bad design.

3. Google Earth does not have the ability to turn off satellite imagery and simply overlay the Google maps maps... They actually have so many layers but leave out one of the most important layers. I want to see the road where the road is, not a bunch of trees and gravel pits which are no longer there in real life.

I could keep going, but there are so many integration issues that are dead simple but Google misses (or almost breaks), it's astounding. Google, if you read this, you are losing users for no reason (by losing I mean forcing them to use non Google products to get simple tasks done because the google products don't play well together)

Astoundingly simple changes that don't even require backend fixes could resolve a whoel bunch of interoperability issues.

I'm half tempted to do them myself and shop them to Google.