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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
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version2.1.0
ManifestV3
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.

Having trouble? Email support: [email protected]

If you find Tab Muter useful, feel free to leave me a tip: https://ko-fi.com/sersorrel

This extension is free software; the source code is available at https://github.com/sersorrel/mute-tab.

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Store average score4.4Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average4.2Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text133Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews186Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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kne2t32023年3月8日
4

It was working well for a while, but it's stop working consistently lately. The only way to fix it is to toggle the on/off on the extension.

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Vitor Leão2023年3月1日
2

Used for many years but noticed today that its no longer working.

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Marcin Kunert2023年2月24日
5

Works fine. Thanks! I use if for chrome remote desktop, without this i can hear myself and it's so annoying.

Language en
Priyam Shrivastav2023年1月26日
5

works like a charm : D

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
yes hx2023年1月17日
5

好用

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John Bond2022年12月18日
5

I feel it is necessary to inform people that you need to pin the extension. This can be done by clicking on the puzzle piece icon in the upper right. Then scroll to Tab Muter and click on the pin to highlight it. Now you will have a speaker icon next to the extensions icon. (puzzle piece) Click on this on this speaker icon with the tab that you want muted open. I hope this helps.

Language en
9 helpful · 0 not helpful
Joe Mullen2022年11月13日
3

removed it before i realized that I still had some tabs muted, so now they're stuck muted even after I reinstalled and tried to unmute :/ Worked, but worked a little too well in my case

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Naysan Imani2022年11月6日
5

i use scratch and it got really annoying when i wanted to hear one tab but heard the other too. Thank you!

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Tits McGee2022年11月4日
5

I absolutely adore this extension. In my opinion it is crucial to the way I choose to watch Twitch streams.

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5 helpful · 0 not helpful
SilhyGames2022年10月11日
2

It used to be good, but recently I've found that it seems to crash or break far too often, usually after extended use of the browser. Always requires the browser to be closed completely and reopened. I know it's probably minor, but I don't know, I just don't like my extensions having lifespans, I guess.

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful