How To Mute Windows On Mac

Unusual times prompt unusual occurrences. A friend was watching a science museum presentation and the presenter was flustered because of a recurring loud sound. They ultimately tracked it down: a tab on their browser was playing back an eagle video. You know: normal!

It's easy to have mysterious sounds playing from browser tabs. This oftentimes occurs because of car-playing video on a page load, the auto-play characteristic in YouTube that seems to re-enable itself on my devices all the time, or pages that later being idle for a while reload themselves and showtime playing video you'd paused—or even redirect the browser to a new folio with auto-playing video!

Whatever the cause, all major desktop browsers ofttimes a unproblematic mode to see which tabs are playing sound and quickly mute them.

Safari

Every tab that'southward producing audio will show a speaker icon in blue at the tab title'due south right. Additionally, the Address and Search bar shows a blueish speaker icon if any tab in whatsoever window is playing sound.

Yous can mute audio in a number of ways:

In a tab playing sound, click the blue speaker icon and it mutes that tab.
Click the speaker icon in any tab, and it mutes that tab's audio.
In a tab not playing sound, click the bluish speaker icon and all tabs playing audio are muted.
In a tab with active sound, hold down Pick and you can click the tab's speaker icon or the blue one in the bar and it mutes all other tabs.
You can fifty-fifty Selection-click the speaker icon on another tab than the frontmost one and it will keep that groundwork tab's sound playing and mute other tabs.

And, finally, you tin can Control-click whatsoever speaker icon, and a drop-downwards card lets you lot select (depending on how many tabs are playing audio) Mute This Tab, Mute Other Tab, Enter Picture in Movie, and Machine-Play. It as well shows a list of all tabs that are playing sound and their titles.

mac911 mute tabs safari — In Safari, a mute and auto-play card helps sort out where sound is coming from.

Chrome

Chrome offers more information about audio and video playing in tabs via its music icon in the upper-right corner. Click information technology and a drop-down card shows all currently active audio and video, offers playback controls and a picture-in-picture show button.

Each tab with actively playing audio also shows a speaker icon. However, different Safari, you can't click or Option-click the icon. Instead, Control-click and select Mute Site.

You can likewise create exception or mute sites automatically via Chrome settings at chrome://settings/content/sound?search=sound.

Firefox

Firefox offers the simplest controls. Any tab playing audio has a speaker icon in it. Click to mute that tab, whether information technology'south frontmost or not. You tin can too Control-click a speaker icon to select Mute Tab.

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