Mute Tab
Workflow & Planning
Restores the 'Mute Tab' functionality of versions prior to Chrome 71.
Users
300K
Rating
4.3
Reviews
190
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Tab Muter
Re-enables the "Mute Tab" feature once found in Chrome itself.
Users100KCurrent public install base
Rating4.4Store average score
Reviews186Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
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Version2.1.0
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Size55.56KiB
Languages1English
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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.
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The only problem I have with this extension is that it always starts Muted. It's very annoying to have to unmute every single website I go to by default.
works like a charm
Life saver. I used to like the muting tabs feature in Chrome until they removed it. This extension does the same thing; despite the button being in a slightly different place but it works flawlessly. It mutes/unmutes the tab you are currently viewing and ONLY that tab (it won't mute the whole of Chrome - just the tab you're viewing at the time of pressing the mute/unmute button).
Thank you for adding this.
Suggestion : Please change icon color as it is very difficult to see the icon and click to unmute tab if we have chrome Dark mode enabled. Both are black which is making it difficult for us.
Thanks god there is this extension Google is stupid removing this
Works best so far. Thanks for this! The only thing I would love to see is the option back in the context menu while RMB on a tab. But anyway ... does what it say's and doesn't mute all tabs like other extensions. <3
this is not a restoration of the tab mute functionality. the idea of tab mute is to click on the audio icon of the tab when you are not in it to mute it from another page. if you have to open the tab to mute it, you could just mute the audio source in the page itself.
Omg thank you, don't understand why Google removed this or at least just changed it to an option between mute site or tab so people can choose.
No idea why Google keeps insisting on removing the ability to mute individual tabs. First they removed how clicking the icon would mute it, but now you can't even right click and mute a tab. You used to be able to fix this by going into your Chrome flags, but now even that option is removed. My guess is they want to make it harder and harder for users to be able to mute ads. This is the next best alternative. The only annoying thing is you have to actually go into the tab you want to mute and then click the extension. But that's not the devs' fault, it's Google's.