Helpful hint: Chrome's hidden tab audio mute control This is so incredibly useful and so little known that I wanted to mention it specifically. We've all had the experience of a site that starts unexpectedly blaring audio after you access a page -- sometimes minutes after you've opened another page and the offending one is buried in a background tab. For quite some time now, Chrome has indicated which tabs are playing audio via a little speaker icon at the tab top -- very handy to figure out which tab to close down, but sometimes you need that tab open and only want a way to shut the damned thing up quickly.
Chrome has an easy way to do this, but you need to specifically enable it. Here's how: When running Chrome, go to: chrome://flags/ You'll see a scary radioactive warning. No problem as long as you don't screw around with options you don't understand. Now find the option called: "Enable tab audio muting UI control" (you can scroll down to it, or search for it as on any other page)... Click "Enable" ... Chrome will prompt you to RELAUNCH NOW. If you're not going to lose important work, go ahead and click the RELAUNCH NOW button. Or relaunch later when it's more convenient (your setting change won't take effect until you do so). Now when audio plays on a tab, you can click the speaker icon on the tab top and audio will be instantly muted. Click it again to restore audio from that tab. How cool is that? Have a great weekend. Best, --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
