Safari lets you mute audio in any open tabs—helpful when you’re listening to audio from one website, and unwanted audio starts playing from another.
Jun 24, 2020 So to mute or unmute all tabs by just one click of the speaker icon, you must be on a tab without any audio sources. How to Mute or Unmute Individual tabs. As mentioned above, all you have to do to mute a tab in Safari on Mac is click the blue speaker icon on the address bar in the tab. This will silence the individual tab you have open.
To mute a browser tab in Google Chrome, right-click it and select “Mute Site.” This will mute all tabs from the site in the future. To unmute them, right-click one of that site’s tabs and click “Unmute SIte.” In older versions of Google Chrome, you could just click on the speaker icon that appears on a tab that is playing audio.
If you type chrome://flags into your URL bar, you’ll see a list of disabled experimental features; search for “mute” to find the Tab Audio Muting UI Control. G/O Media may get a commission.
Are you getting tired of obnoxious ads blaring sound while you're browsing? AutoMute automatically mutes every tab opened in your browser, effectively allowing you to opt-in to hear audio in a web page, instead of forcing you to opt-out.
If you’re viewing a tab that’s not playing audio, the Audio button in the Smart Search field is white with a blue outline. If the tab is playing audio, the Audio button is solid blue.
Mute audio
In the Safari app on your Mac, do any of the following:
Mute audio in the tab you’re viewing: Click the Audio button in the Smart Search field.
Mute audio in other tabs: If you’re viewing several websites that are playing audio, Option-click the Audio button in the Smart Search field to let audio play in the tab you’re currently viewing and mute the audio in other tabs.
Mute all audio: If you’re viewing a website that’s not playing audio and other tabs are playing audio, click the Audio button in the Smart Search field to quickly mute all audio in other tabs.
Mute any tab: Click the Audio button on the right side of the tab in the tab bar.
See websites that are playing audio
In the Safari app on your Mac, click and hold the Audio button in the Smart Search field to see a list of websites that are playing audio.
Choose a website to go to the tab where the audio is playing.
If you’re viewing a website that’s not playing audio, the list of open websites also includes the Mute All Tabs option. If it is playing audio, it includes the Mute This Tab or Mute Other Tabs option.
Unmute audio
Mute Site Vs Mute Tablets
In the Safari app on your Mac, click the muted Audio button in the Smart Search field, or on the right side of the tab in the tab bar.
Note: You can mute and unmute audio in tabs that are in the active Safari window as well as in tabs that are in other Safari windows behind the active window.
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.
How to mute tabs in Microsoft Edge
Auto Mute Tabs Edge
Open Microsoft Edge, surf the web, and stumble upon a web-page you want to mute.
Right click on the tab which has a speaker icon displayed, indicating audio output.
Select “Mute Tab”, this then mutes all sound from the tab until you choose to unmute it.
Alternatively, just click on the speaker icon to disable sound immediately.
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. Tech a rainmeter skin free download.