Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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/).

4 of 151 comments (clear)

  1. Finally! by weilawei · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Something approximating a useful feature!

    1. Re:Finally! by JMJimmy · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Indeed. Now if we could only get CPU/RAM usage as well!

    2. Re:Finally! by alvinrod · · Score: 4, Insightful

      For a long time I didn't mind having ads enabled on Slashdot as they tended to behave well, but recently they've been beyond annoying. They make noise and eat inordinate amounts of CPU time for no purpose. When will advertisers realize it's better to make a simple ad that's respectful to the audience than to make one that no one will ever care to look at? I don't doubt that they can get by fine in general when advertising to the unwashed masses, but this is a tech site and the users are no strangers to ad-blocking plug-ins or other means of never viewing their content.

  2. Re:Not that Useful by KiloByte · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The real problem is, why a webpage can make noise without permission.

    Seriously, all video/audio should be behind a click-to-play block by default, with no way around.

    --
    The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.