Now, instead of opening the music tab, you can directly mute the song for the time being using the audio icon and once you are done with the video, just click on the same icon again to get back to your audio stream.Ĭool Tip: You can turn YouTube videos into floating PIP screens and watch them while working on other Chrome Tabs using this simple extension.Īlso, when you need a bit of focus while reading an article, the mute button is just a click away. The feature can come in handy when you are listening to online radio or a music streaming website and you suddenly find an interesting video you want to watch. The control doesn’t extend to increasing or decreasing the volume of that tab, at least not at the moment. You should now see the speaker icon on the tabs that are playing audio, but this time the icons will be interactive and you can simply click on them to mute the entire page. This will help you keep the session history while restarting. Make sure you use the Restart button located at the bottom. Now all you need to do is enable the feature and restart the browser. If you are browsing from Chrome, you can click on this link to go there.
Enabling the Chrome Mute ButtonĪs this is a Flag feature, open up the chrome://flags/ page and look for the feature that reads Enable tab audio muting UI control.
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