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Firefox Will Soon Show You Which Tabs Are Making Noise, and Let You Mute Them

Posted by Soulskill on from the hush-little-browser-don't-say-a-word dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla is working on identifying Firefox tabs that are currently playing audio. The feature will show an icon if a tab is making sounds and let the user mute the playback. It's worth noting that while Chrome has had audio indicators for more than a year now, it still doesn't let you easily mute tabs. The option is available in Google's browser, but it's not enabled by default (you have to turn on the #enable-tab-audio-muting flag in chrome://flags/).

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  1. Re:Finally! by bondsbw · · Score: 4, Informative

    And kudos to subby for pointing out the way to do it in Chrome... didn't realize it was there.

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  2. Re:Finally! by Seferino · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yep, I'm working on it. Firefox Nightly should have a usable display of CPU by the end of August. Memory usage is planned, but I have many other things to do first.

  3. Re:Finally! by Seferino · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's not planned for the moment, but with PreferenceStats.jsm (currently in Firefox Nightly), it is already possible to write an add-on that does monitors each tab. Firefox doesn't have a feature for stopping all scripts in a page yet (that's https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s..., if you're curious), but reloading the tab without scripts (or other features) shouldn't be too hard.

  4. #enable-tab-audio-muting .. by nickweller · · Score: 3, Informative

    "The option is available in Google's browser, but it's not enabled by default

    #enable-tab-audio-muting is enabled by default on this Chrome version 44.0.2403.89 beta ..