How To - Mute Sound In Inactive Tabs In Chrome Automatically

Among other things, one of the most annoying things on the internet are interactive elements, usually videos advertisement, that play sound automatically when a website is opened.

Google recently introduced sound symbols in Chrome and Chromium-based browsers that visualize that sound is playing in a tab. Still, there is still no option to mute one or multiple tabs directly. So you have to mute sound manually by either closing tab with sound icon or make that page active and then mute the sound or stop the video if stop/pause button available.

Here is a easy solution. Mute Inactive Tabs is an extension for the Google Chrome browser that automates the process. Instead of having to do anything at all to block sound coming from inactive tabs, it blocks the sound automatically.

After you have installed the extension in Chrome you will notice a new icon that it added to the main toolbar of the browser. This icon can be used to turn it on or off with a click which can be useful if you want sound to play in background tabs at times. Say, if you want to listen to Internet Radio or a video on a site in the background.

It works fine various sites like it blocked videos on YouTube and Dailymotion and Flash ads on Kongregate.

You are probably wondering how the sound is stopped in those tabs. On some sites, YouTube for instance, videos are paused automatically so that they can be played from the position playback stopped.

So check it out and let us know if it works for you. If you like Share this post with your friends.