Chrome-Stats extension
Clever Mute
This extension mutes all sites by default. If a site tries to play any sound you'll be notified so you can decide what to do
Total ratings for Clever Mute
3.88
(Rating count:
34)
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Pros
- Easy to toggle sound on/off
- Blocks autoplay audio effectively
- Useful for controlling sound on various sites
- User-friendly and intuitive interface
- Helpful for avoiding annoying sounds from ads
Cons
- Not compatible with dark theme in Chrome
- Poor user interface design
- No user-configurable options
- Delayed muting lets sound play for a fraction of a second
- Lacks an options page to set black- or whitelisting
Most mentioned
- Plays a split second of audio before it is muted
- Struggles with certain websites, notably YouTube
- Needs improvement to mute sound immediately
- Does not have an option to disable notifications
- Lack of regular updates to the extension
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Recent reviews for Clever Mute
Recent rating average:
3.30
All time rating average:
3.88
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| Date | Author | Rating | Lang | Comment |
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| 2023-10-10 |  |
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Always blocks translate.google.co.uk, no matter what I do. Works on most other sites, though. | |
| 2022-01-25 |  |
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Thanks you for you work. But plug. without asking, will be useful. with asking every time, and play sound for 1s is useless. | |
| 2021-11-19 |  |
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Does the opposite of what I was looking for but still works for what I needed, Yes there is a some sec of audio when a new tab is opened but that's no big deal. so far works well | |
| 2021-01-15 |  |
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was clever now not working as was | |
| 2020-01-24 |  |
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THE BEST. I did a search searching over a hundred extensions. I found the logic of this the best, because the solution is definitely the most intelligent. Thank you! | |
| 2019-11-08 | Lee Hodsdon |
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Installed this extension into Chrome v78.0. The toolbar icon color is poorly chosen for use when a dark theme is used in the web browser. The author should provide 2 icon themes: one for light theme in Chrome, and another for the dark theme in Chrome. This extension is supposed to popup an alert for when it detects a site wants to play sound. I never get that popup. When I go to chrome:extensions, click on Details for this extension, there is no link to Options, so no way for me to manually edit the white- and blacklists (and especially the blacklist due to poor GUI design of this extensions dialog). Alt-clicking on this extension's toolbar icon shows Options in the context menu, but Options is disabled (grayed out), so it has no user-configurable options. That means I can never add a site to a whitelist. I could never delete an accidentally blacklisted site (due to poor GUI design). And no means of editing those lists, either. This extension has not been updated in over an year. Back then Chrome was at version 69. Now it's up to version 78 (released). Perhaps Google changed something in one of those later 9 version of Chrome that disables the white/blacklisting options and popup alert functions in this extension, or the author removed that functionality but did not update the description his extension. Since there is no web site for this extension, there's no place for the author to list a release notes history on his versions. I tried restarting Chrome and disabled any other extensions dealing with tabs, sounds, or autoplay. Still no popup alert from this extension when visiting Youtube and selecting a video to play, so no choices regarding audio in the current tab session, to whitelist, or to blacklist (on closing its dialog). I was using Youtube to test, and maybe this extension won't work with that site. However, that does not explain the absence of Options (to show and edit white- and blacklists) when I look at the details of this extension and Options being disabled when right-clicking on its toolbar icon. I also noticed the muting is delayed. When I open a tab that plays audio, the audio starts playing and then this extension mutes the tab in about a second. Apparently it doesn't inspect the document on load to check for audio or video tags in the HTML code, and instead it waits until it detects sound actually playing. I hear a blurp of audio at 100% which can be quite loud for some videos, and why I wanted an auto-muter extension. Committing an action on closing or ignoring a dialog box is very improper GUI design. In this extension, it supposedly automatically blacklists a site if you close its dialog. The "X" close button should only perform THAT function: close the dialog. No action (whitelisting, blacklisting, Windows shutdown, exploding your computer, or whatever) should be performed on closing the dialog. That's behavior employed by scam, rogueware, and ransomware dialogs. If I want a site whitelisted, that should require a choice by me (which is the current case). If I want a site blacklisted, that should also a require a choice BY ME, and an overt choice to blacklist, not a covert function of closing the dialog. Uninstalled this extension. Will have to trial other choices. | |
| 2019-04-05 |  |
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The site may play a split second of audio before it is muted but after adding it to black list it doesn't happen again. Very easy to toggle on/off. Gives me the exact form of control over audio I was looking for, works out of the box. Great extension. | |
| 2019-03-27 |  |
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Plays a split second of audio before muting. And it turns out that it's impossible to mute individual tabs now in Chrome?? | |
| 2019-03-12 |  |
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Чёткое Расширение | |
| 2019-03-12 |  |
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ru | Чёткое Расширение |
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