How to Mute Tabs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari

Here’s how to Mute Tabs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari on your Mac or PC. If you’ve been online long enough, you’ve probably seen auto-playing video ads, which are the worst thing about the internet. There aren’t many things worse than going to a website and hearing music you don’t want.

Because of this, almost all web browsers let you mute tabs. The “mute tab” feature turns off everything in a certain tab, so even a loud video ad won’t bother you. When you’re surfing the web, sometimes the page you’re on will start to play sound. It’s pretty annoying, especially if your speakers are turned all the way up and you don’t know which tab the music is coming from.

How to Mute Tabs in Chrome

Use Chrome’s Mute Site Option

Chrome has a built-in feature that lets you turn off annoying sounds on websites. As was already said, when you go to a website with this option, the sound will always be turned off. To stop Chrome from playing a site:

1. Right-click on the tab you want to mute.
2. From the resulting drop-down menu, select Mute Site.
3. This will silence the sites in the open tabs anytime you open them.

Enable Chrome Tab Muting and Use the Sound Icon to Mute the Tab

If you’d rather mute a tab in Chrome instead, you can do this with a workaround in the browser. This method is supposed to work for people whose tabs have a speaker icon, but it doesn’t. Do these things:

1. Visit Chrome://flags/#enable-tab-audio-muting on your browser.
2. Select Enabled and then Relaunch the browser.
3. Now, you can make use of the speaker icon in front of your tab name to mute it

Mute Chrome Tabs with Keyboard Shortcuts

For this method to work, the Mute Tab Shortcut extension must be installed in your Chrome browser. You can mute Chrome tabs with these keyboard shortcuts:

1. Press Alt + Shift +, to mute all tabs in your current window.
2. Press Alt + Shift + M to mute and unmute a selected tab.
3. Press Alt + Shift + N to mute all tabs except the one your one

How to Mute Tabs in Edge

The new version of Microsoft Edge is based on Google’s open-source Chromium code, which makes it more like Chrome. Like Google’s browser, you can mute the site by clicking on the speaker icon next to the name of the site in the tab. To turn it off, click it again. Simple. You can also right-click on a noisy tab and choose “Mute Tab” from the menu that appears. Repeat to turn back on the sound.

1. Click the three-dot Ellipsis icon located in the top right corner and select Settings on the drop-down menu.
2. Select Site Permissions listed on the left.
3. Scroll down and select Media Autoplay on the right.
4. Next to Control if Audio and Video Automatically Play on Sites, select Limit from the drop-down menu.

How to Mute Tabs in Firefox

• One is to right-click the tab and select “Mute Tab”.
• Another way is to left-click the speaker icon, which will only mute the sound from that particular tab. If you want to mute all tabs except for one, you can do so by clicking the speaker icon in that tab.
• Finally, you can also right-click the tab and choose “Mute Tab” to mute the browser tab altogether.

How to Mute Tabs in Safari

• The easiest way is to just click on the tab that is playing audio. This will mute the sound coming from that tab. If you want to unmute it, just click on it again.
• You can also mute all tabs by clicking on the Speaker icon located in the Smart Search field (address bar). If you want to unmute all of them, just click on the speaker icon again.
• In addition, Safari offers a blue speaker icon in its URL bar, which you can click to mercifully mute all tabs when you have rogue tabs playing audio in the background.

FAQ

How do I mute a tab in chrome like Firefox?

Default setup: Alt + Shift + M to mute or unmute the current tab Alt + Shift + N to mute all tabs except the current one Alt + Shift + M to mute or unmute all tabs – Press Alt+Shift+Comma In the Chrome extension settings, the “Keyboard Shortcut” menu at the bottom right can be used to change how keys are bound.

How do I turn off the tab sound in edge?

To mute a tab, right-click it and choose “Mute tab” from the menu that appears. The easiest way to stop a tab from playing sound is to click the small speaker icon that shows up on the tab. If you click the speaker icon again, the tab will stop being silent.

How do I mute all tabs in Firefox?

If you click the speaker, you can turn the sound on or off for just that tab. Tip: You can also mute multiple tabs by selecting them with Ctrl-click, then right-clicking one of these tabs and choosing Mute Tabs. If you don’t have a mouse, you can also press Ctrl + M while on a tab to mute or unmute it.

How do I turn off tab volume?

When you go to a website in Chrome and the tab starts playing sound, the Tab Audio Indicator shows a volume icon. To turn off the sound, click on the Volume icon on the tab. The sound will stop playing right away.