Firefox shows a little speaker icon on any tab making sound which you can click to mute it.
Removed by mod
Most browsers have this now. What I really need is an icon above the window with the sound coming from it when I’m selecting the app from the taskbar.
You mean like this?
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Yeah, my Linux is CLI, and I run Windows in VM. I just need to move further away from Windows entirely I think.
Yeah, I mean, do whatever works best for you, but it is quite nice to live in the future of desktop computing.
Firefox has a setting that prevents audio from autoplaying as well. Especially after Google’s latest endeavours, I can’t support Chrome, and with their hands in Chromium, the well is kind of poisoned. Microsoft is only slightly better than Google in regards to privacy.
Edit: tbf, you didn’t say you use either of those, but statistics point to it being the likely browsers for most people reading the comment.
Firefox is the best browser and no one will change my opinion!
I tend to use Firefox for my media needs (YouTube, streaming platforms, anime sites), but I try not to have more than one FF window so I don’t have to select a window when clicking on the taskbar icon. So, I do all my other browsing on Chromium platforms (Chrome, Edge, Opera), each with a different purpose, like all of my research goes on Chrome and my social media/ utility apps go on Opera because of the workspace segregation functionality. Privacy issues notwithstanding. I wish there was a way to accomplish this without chromium, I just don’t see enough diversity in browser options. So, I settle for Chrome, which used to be pretty great but is becoming cruddier with each successive update.
There’s a Firefox addon by Mozilla called “Container Tabs”, it allows you to make seperate “containers” for tabs, allowing you to seperate shopping, social media, etc. There are also 3rd party extensions to make specific containers for Google, Amazon, Facebook, and so on. It’s very useful for separating your online life whilst maintaining one browser!
Edit: also, you can set a color for different containers and it shows that color in a thin bar at the top of the tab, which shows on all tabs. Non-container’d tabs don’t have a bar at all.
Firefox used to have this… Now the speaker is hidden until you hover the mouse over the tab to make it visible. If you don’t know which tab is making the noise having to hover over each tab instead of knowing at a quick glance isn’t all that great.
Helpful until you have so many tabs they overflow the bar. That’s why anytime I find myself in this position, I close all 200+ tabs that aren’t the one I currently have open
Tree-style tabs for the win
Those really are a game changer. It has made me join the club of weirdos who have countless of tabs open.
it’s the one with the speaker icon on it
It is all in your mind.
