Firefox shows a little speaker icon on any tab making sound which you can click to mute it.
I doubt have the time to inspect 1200 tabs across 18 browser window, so I use this as a shortcut. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/go-to-sound-tab/
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.
Yeah, my Linux is CLI, and I run Windows in VM. I just need to move further away from Windows entirely I think.
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.
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.
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
it’s the one with the speaker icon on it
It is all in your mind.
