More and more sites are starting to autoplay videos, so now is the time to learn how to mute the sound playing on one of the browser's many open tabs. I'll go over the different ways you can turn off tabs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, and Safari.

Chrome.

Google's browser displays a small speaker icon on any tab that is currently playing audio. To mute a tab, right-click the tab and then select Mute Tab. You can perform this maneuver without leaving the current tab.

Edge.

Microsoft Browser displays a speaker icon on any tab that is playing audio files, but you cannot click on the background tab and mute the sound. Instead, you need to switch to the tab, find the audio source, and mute in place. The only way.

Firefox.

Firefox also displays a speaker icon, and you can click on it to mute this tab without switching to it.
You can also right-click on the tab and select "Remove Sound from Tab", as in the same Chrome.

Opera.

Opera offers the best way to mute audio on a browser tab, especially if you have more than one background tab that has started playing audio. Just right-click on the current tab and click "Mute Other Tabs". You can also click on the speaker icon to mute a tab, like in Firefox, or right-click and select "Mute Tab" like in Chrome. Opera displays a small audio level icon on those tabs that play audio, and then it shows a speaker icon when you hover over the tab.

Safari.

Safari offers the same two tab mute options as Firefox does. You can simply click on the speaker icon on the audio playback tab to mute it without leaving the current tab, and you can right-click on the tab and select "Mute Tab".

Several years ago, Google Chrome became the first browser in which special indicators appeared on the tabs, allowing the user to quickly navigate and understand which tab is making a sound. However, unfortunately, Chrome does not allow you to quickly turn off the sound. Today we'll show you how to fix it.

Of course, you may have already seen the indicator icon before:

However, all these are unnecessary clicks anyway. Other web browsers, including Firefox, Opera, and even Yandex Browser, have gone a little further here: for nicknames, the sound indicator is clickable. Clicking on it turns off the sound, repeated - turns it back on. You don't need to go anywhere and open any menus.

You will be surprised, but such a function is also in Chrome, but for some reason it is disabled by default.

Turn off sound on any Chrome tab in one click

The function is located not in the main browser settings, but on the chrome: // flags service page. It is called "Tab audio muting UI control", and you can find it in the built-in search by typing, for example, "muting":

Enable the option, after which you need to restart Chrome:

That's all. Now you can turn off the sound in Google Chrome on any of its tabs with one click.

Accordingly, turning the sound back on this tab, if it was disabled, will also become easier and faster.

Muting audio in future versions of Chrome

Of course, turning off the sound in one click, without going to the tabs where it is playing, and without even opening the context menu of these tabs, is convenient.

However, it would be even more convenient if the sound did not appear at all when it was not needed. Moreover, it's one thing to turn off the sound in one Chrome tab, and another to do this operation all the time.

Google is thinking about this and in future versions of Chrome will add special settings for the flash player and sound to the program interface.

As a result, the user on each specific site will be able to customize their behavior (allow or block).

It is noteworthy that now Chrome does not automatically play audio / video only on background tabs until they have been clicked on.

However, in future versions, the program may stop playing any multimedia content by default, unless you explicitly click on the player in which it is located.

Thus, extraneous unexpected sound will bother you much less often and you will not have to turn it off in most cases.

In this article, we'll walk you through how to mute sound on a tab or in Microsoft Edge.

If you've used Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome before, you probably know that these browsers display a speaker icon on tabs that play audio or video. And these browsers also let you mute tabs by clicking on speaker volume.

Microsoft Edge also displays a speaker icon on tabs that play audio / video. Unfortunately Microsoft Edge doesn't offer to disable certain tabs or all open tabs.

There is currently no extension to help you quickly mute the sound in the Microsoft Edge browser tab. However, Windows 10 now allows you to disable tabs in the Edge browser using the Volume Mixer.

With the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (v1709), Microsoft has updated the Volume Mixer to support modern apps like Edge. Before that, we had to use third-party apps like EarTrumpet to adjust the volume levels of individual apps.

The volume mixer has been updated to reflect the Edge browser. The best part is that if multiple tabs in the Edge browser are producing sound, then the Volume Mixer displays all the tabs (with their names) that are playing the sound so that you can easily mute a particular tab.

The Volume Mixer is a built-in feature that lets you control the volume level of each of your apps and programs.

Remember, the Edge browser is now available for iOS and Android as well, but there is no way to mute the sound on a tab in the smartphone version.

How do I mute certain tabs in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10?

So, below we are going to show you how to mute the sound on tabs in the Edge browser on Windows 10.

Note. You must have the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (v1709). To check, enter Winver.exe v Start / Search and then press Enter... If you are using the Fall Creators Update, you will see version 1709.

• Step 1. Open the volume mixer. To open it, right-click on the sound icon in the system tray and then click "Open Volume Mixer"... You can also use the search in the start menu to open the volume mixer.

Figure 1. Right-click on the volume mixer icon and then click on Open Volume Mixer.

• Step 2. In the dialog box Volume mixer In chapter "Applications" displays all the tabs in the Edge browser that are playing music or videos. As you can see in the picture, Volume mixer displays in Microsoft Edge and also suggests an overall volume setting.

Figure 2. Microsoft Edge app in Volume Mixer. If you want to permanently mute all the tabs in the Edge browser, just drag the slider all the way down.

• Step 3. Click the volume icon just below an app to mute audio playback for that app. If you have multiple Edge tabs playing audio or video, you will need to click the volume icon below each of the Edge icons to turn them all off.

Figure 3. Click on the volume icon to mute audio playback for a particular application.

Became the first browser to decide to mark pages with audio content with a special icon. However, you, alas, will not be able to quickly turn off the sound on sites with annoying self-playing videos. Another situation: in Chrome the sound has disappeared on all resources of the Network. Read below for a complete guide on how to mute (unmute) audio in the world's most popular web browser.

A bit of history: back in 2011, the hero of the note got an extension for working with the MuteTab sound. Three years later, Google engineers added a sound indicator (checkbox) to the browser. Other specialized applications went a little further, making the indicator clickable, and only in Chrome this useful functionality is still experimental. However, injustice is easily remedied.

Disable (enable) sound on the tab

For this to happen, type in the address bar chrome: // flags → "Enter"→ further, through the search field, find the option" Tab audio muting UI control"(or just copy into the address bar chrome: // flags / # enable-tab-audio-muting → "Enter") and set the switch to" Turn on" ("Enabled").

• Restart the browser by clicking the button of the same name (" Relaunch now"), see screenshot.
• Open on YouTube any video and at the top of the tab, click on the speaker icon - the sound will turn off. By the way, right-clicking on the taboo achieves the same effect → in the context menu, stop on " Mute website sound". A second click on the tab, on the contrary, will turn on the sound.

Disable (enable) sound through settingsChrome

All would be good, but constantly muffling the sound on frequently visited pages is not very convenient. Therefore, I suggest through chrome: // settings customize the behavior of the player on each specific web resource.

• Find " Content settings"(section" Privacy and Security ") →" Sound"→ if in Chrome for some reason there is no sound, activate the mode " Allow sites to play sounds (recommended)".
• To block sound on selected domains, add them to the list "Sites with muted sound" → " Add".
• If the mode is activated Disable sounds on sites", whitelist your favorite video pages by visiting" Allow "→" Add".

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