Mute Site Vs Mute Tab

  1. Step 2: Select Mute Tab to mute Google Meet's audio. That should put a crossed speaker icon on the tab. It is an indication that the tab is muted, and so is everyone in your Google Meet video call.
  2. Click it to mute the sound from that tab, and that tab alone. The mute button works when the tab playing sound is selected and when it’s in the background. If you get experience any issues after turning the Tab mute control flag on you can quickly disable it: Go to chrome://flags in a new tab; Search for the ‘Enable tab audio.
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Jun 15, 2020 Now, head over to the website which you want to mute; Next, you need to right-click on the window title bar or Tab bar for the site that is playing sound and select Mute Site. Alternately, click on Windows from the top navigation and click on Mute. You have muted the entire site. Now, go ahead and read articles without any. Aug 21, 2020  Turn off sounds in Chrome by right-clicking on the tab and selecting the Mute Site option. If you aren't sure which tab is making the noise, look for a little speaker icon on that tab. To mute Safari sounds, look for the speaker icon in the address bar. Click on it while on a tab that's playing sound and it mutes that tab.

Microsoft is joining the modern world with muting support for Microsoft Edge. In the next big version of Windows, Microsoft wil now let you mute your tabs, a feature which is supported by Google Chrome and Firefox, It is an especially useful feature for taming web-pages which have auto-play video (seriously, stop doing this internet), or muting a web-page which is playing audio while you’re on another tab because you want to concentrate, you get the gist.

Internet Explorer How To Mute Tab

How to mute tabs in Microsoft Edge

  1. Open Microsoft Edge, surf the web, and stumble upon a web-page you want to mute.
  2. Right click on the tab which has a speaker icon displayed, indicating audio output.
  3. Select “Mute Tab”, this then mutes all sound from the tab until you choose to unmute it.
  4. Alternatively, just click on the speaker icon to disable sound immediately.
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This feature will be available in Windows 10 from next year but is already available, at the time of writing, to Windows Insiders running Windows 10 RS4 build 17035 and above.
Have you installed this new build? Let us know in the comments below.

Last year Google Chrome introduced an easier way to find out which open tabs are playing sound, a feature that makes unexpected blasts from auto-play elements hidden on a web page far easier to deal with.

Oh how the MySpace years would have benefited from that!

But Chrome’s tab indicator can do more than simply show you which tab is playing sound. Oh yes; a hidden, experimental, feature turns the nifty speaker icon into a clickable mute button.

Aside from avoiding wear and tear on your keyboard’s dedicated mute key the feature works on a per tab basis, not a system-wide one.

When a web page starts playing audio, be it intentionally or otherwise, you can click the speaker icon to toggle the sound for that one tab off, and click it again to toggle the sound back on. The flag also adds a command to the tab context menu for quick right click > shut up access.

Enable Tab Muting Feature in Chrome

To try Chrome’s Tab Mute feature out for yourself, bearing in mind that it’s still experimental, you need simply to do the following:

  1. Go to chrome://flags in a new tab
  2. Search for the ‘Enable tab audio muting UI control’ flag
  3. Hit the ‘Enable’ link
  4. Relaunch Chrome when prompted (on Chrome OS a full restart is required¹)

Now to test it out.

Open up a YouTube video (or any other web-page/website with sound, like Soundcloud) and hit play.

You should see the regular speaker icon now appear in the tab strip.

Click it to mute the sound from that tab, and that tab alone.

The mute button works when the tab playing sound is selected and when it’s in the background.

Nifty, no?

If you get experience any issues after turning the Tab mute control flag on you can quickly disable it:

  1. Go to chrome://flags in a new tab
  2. Search for the ‘Enable tab audio muting UI control’ flag
  3. Hit the ‘Disable’ link
  4. Relaunch Chrome when prompted

Mute Site Vs Mute Tab Music

¹Thanks Jason