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Firefox Will Soon Show You Which Tabs Are Making Noise, and Let You Mute Them
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/).
Keep in mind Chrome had this .... then advertisers disabled it :-(
I tried a system without adblock and it was astounding what these guys do these days. Website redirects, 15 second commercials you can't close, etc.
My fear is as flash dies HTML 5 will make blocking this harder if they can hack and disable muting
http://saveie6.com/
What I want is all video, sound, script playing in all tabs to be always suspended, except when I explicitly permit them to operate. Just confining them to a tab is not sufficient, because you can be watching a video in a tab and have the sound cluttered up by one to three commercials auto-running on the same page. (And I'm not talking about pr0n sites -- certain news sites have been especially annoying lately.)
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
what I want is each tab to be a sandbox as tight as a Virtualbox VM that I can just pause just like I can with a Virtualbox VM session, preferably to happen when I take focus off it.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
Now when can we find out which tab is sucking 80% of the CPU cycles?
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,