#CHROME AUTOMUTE TABS HOW TO#
How to mute a single tab on Google Chrome The steps, however, are slightly more complex. Instead of muting a website entirely, you can also mute a single tab at a time. The sound on the website will now be successfully restored. Click on the option that says “ Unmute site.” Right-click on the tab that you want to unmute.ģ. Open the website or find it from the assortment of already open tabs.Ģ. Following these simple steps activates the sound on a muted website in Chrome:ġ.
The process of unmuting a website is similar. Once you know how to mute a tab, it’s a bonus to know how to unmute a tab too - just in case you need it again. Further, it will also remember your instructions and automatically mute a website in your future browsing sessions. One of the benefits of this feature is that Google Chrome will mute all instances of the particular website running simultaneously. Using this simple method, you can silence those pesky and irritating background sounds that interrupt your browsing experience. Click on the option to mute the website successfully. On the pop-up menu that opens when you right-click on the tab, you will find an option called “ Mute site.”Ĥ. Right-click on that tab in the tab bar.ģ. Similarly, if you have come across a website sending annoying audio alerts without your permission, you can identify it by spotting the tabs with the speaker icons.Ģ. Open the website you want to mute in Google Chrome. All you have to do is follow these steps:ġ.
The steps to mute a tab in Google Chrome are straightforward, and anyone with basic proficiency in browsing the internet can execute them. However it would be nice if the browser was able to smartly isolate different audio sources, killing unwanted audio ads and permitting what the User wants (like a Youtube video).(Image credit: Tushar Mehta/Android Central) Starting a video or audio clip would override an active mute setting. NOTE: When the audio is no longer detected the audio icon would disappear, so you could wait out an autoplay ad prior to playing a video or audio clip in the same page. decide to incorporate something like this in their browsers going forward. Here’s hoping the overlords at Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari, etc. For sites with playlists the skip forward and back buttons could also be added. To take it a step further you could include play/pause and volume controls in the tab as well, should you need to pause playback or adjust the volume on the fly (see 2. Perfect for autoplay ads, audio ads you accidentally trigger, pages with ambient audio, or times you need a quick mute for YouTube or Soundcloud. This would mute all audio coming from the offending page. You then click on it to mute, simple as that (see 1. When you have a page open and audio is detected this icon appears in the page’s tab: I propose that all browsers incorporate a feature that will detect audio in each page and allow Users the ability to shut it off. Another scenario is when you accidentally hover over an ad and you are bombarded with sound, and you cannot mute or lower the volume. You’re surfing the web and you have several pages open when SUDDENLY a loud autoplay ad starts up it’s invasive and you’re scrambling to find it and shut it down.
#CHROME AUTOMUTE TABS UPDATE#
UPDATE (Feb 11/2014): Looks like Chrome now has this feature.
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