MuteTab

Alas, this is an incomplete solution. I selected muting by default because I don't want sites blaring their noise at me when I happen to visit the site. Alas, unmuting the site is clumsy. I cannot use the volume control in the video: it will change from mute/unmute status but has no effect on the actual muting of the document (web page). The speaker icon in the tab is no longer a user-clickable object, so no changing the muting there. Right-clicking on the tab and selecting Mute/Unmute s... Show more

This is one of the best auto mute extension. All the functions and UI is well design. I have one suggestion for the context menu. It will be much easier and faster to use if you have it under one sub level menu instead of two sub levels like "Current Tab" and "All Tabs" as one sub. Also is it possible to add the feature to enable or disable audio by clicking on the mute icon on the tab? Another solution is add a popup button where the user click to unmute. It will automatically disappear in... Show more

This plugin is great for muting background tabs. But it also mutes the active tab, and there's no setting to change that. If you mute, you end up having to unmute manually (in an awkward right-click menu) or whitelist the whole domain. I find I'm constantly scrambling to unmute a page to hear an ongoing video. If I could just know that when I play a video on a site I'm on, it's unmuted by default, and that page gets muted if I go to another tab, that would be the bee's knees.