Chrome-Stats extension
Tab Muter
Re-enables the "Mute Tab" feature once found in Chrome itself.
What is Tab Muter?
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Summary
Once upon a time, Chrome had a feature hidden away in chrome://flags to allow users to mute individual tabs by clicking the speaker icon next to the tab's title. This was deemed "not good enough", as the Chrome developers wanted to remove the need for users to manually control tab audio, so it was removed in favour of the "Mute Site" feature.
Chrome can't yet automatically determine which tabs should be playing audio, so I made this extension to let the user make that decision. The button's in a different place due to Chrome API limitations, but apart from that, this extension should work exactly as the old "Mute Tab" feature did.
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This extension is free software; the source code is available at https://github.com/sersorrel/mute-tab.
User reviews
User reviews summary
Pros
- Works as advertised
- Simple and efficient
- Useful for Twitch streams
- Quick and easy to download and use
Cons
- Stops working with Chrome updates
- Issues with muting multiple tabs of the same website
- Requires browser restart or extension toggling
- Frequent crashes and corruption
Most mentioned
- Stops working with Chrome updates
- Useful for Twitch streams
- Requires browser restart or extension toggling
- Frequent crashes and corruption
Recent reviews
ZhuoXing Liao, 2024-03-23
Och nö, 2024-03-21
Felix Schweda, 2024-03-19Safety
Risk impact
Tab Muter is safe to use. It does not request any sensitive permissions.
Risk likelihood
Tab Muter has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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