The audio indicator and the option to mute the sound appear on the tabs in Firefox.
Developers from the Mozilla community will add an indication of audio playback to the next version of the Firefox browser . On the tabs that make sounds, the corresponding icon will appear, which will allow you not only to find out who is making noise, but also to turn off the sound from the tab.
I would like to write letters with a height of 100 pixels “well, finally!”, Because, unfortunately, this problem has not been solved for a very long time - the first request appeared in the tracker for errors and suggestions in 2009 . The competing Chrome browser has an audio indication for over a year now. This feature came to him earlier, because the browser supports Flash-media through its own plugin, while Firefox uses third-party.
And although Firefox is no longer the most popular browser (as a percentage, almost three times behind Chrome), it is still quite common (more than 20% of users).
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It's good that websites with background music sank into oblivion in the early 2000s, but, unfortunately, they are replaced by an obsessive way to play video and audio embedded in the page without asking. Especially with this sin news agencies, as well as various kinds of entertainment and advertising resources. This not only takes away precious traffic (in cases where the user pays for it), but also distracts the user, and can cause inconvenience to third parties who are close to the computer.
It’s a pity that Firefox doesn’t have, for example, the setting “Do not launch video and audio automatically”. Such functionality is not implemented by third-party plug-ins, and for a long time even the audio indication could not be made due to difficulties in processing the flash-plug-in itself. The new browser function will work with Flash plug-in, both under Windows and for Mac.
To combat the sounds at the moment there are two plugins: Muter , which allows you to completely turn off the sound in the browser, and Noise Control , which marks tabs with sound icons and even allows you to turn off the sound by clicking on the icon. Unfortunately, he can only do this for players using HTML5.
I would like to write letters with a height of 100 pixels “well, finally!”, Because, unfortunately, this problem has not been solved for a very long time - the first request appeared in the tracker for errors and suggestions in 2009 . The competing Chrome browser has an audio indication for over a year now. This feature came to him earlier, because the browser supports Flash-media through its own plugin, while Firefox uses third-party.
And although Firefox is no longer the most popular browser (as a percentage, almost three times behind Chrome), it is still quite common (more than 20% of users).
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It's good that websites with background music sank into oblivion in the early 2000s, but, unfortunately, they are replaced by an obsessive way to play video and audio embedded in the page without asking. Especially with this sin news agencies, as well as various kinds of entertainment and advertising resources. This not only takes away precious traffic (in cases where the user pays for it), but also distracts the user, and can cause inconvenience to third parties who are close to the computer.
It’s a pity that Firefox doesn’t have, for example, the setting “Do not launch video and audio automatically”. Such functionality is not implemented by third-party plug-ins, and for a long time even the audio indication could not be made due to difficulties in processing the flash-plug-in itself. The new browser function will work with Flash plug-in, both under Windows and for Mac.
To combat the sounds at the moment there are two plugins: Muter , which allows you to completely turn off the sound in the browser, and Noise Control , which marks tabs with sound icons and even allows you to turn off the sound by clicking on the icon. Unfortunately, he can only do this for players using HTML5.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/367785/
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