Google Chrome Now Comes with Mute Button for Individual Tabs, Helps Deal with Auto-playing Video Menace

How many times has it happened to you that you click on a link to read an interesting, article or a story, and as you start reading it, you start hearing either some music, or jingle, or unknown audio through your computer speakers. And then you spend next couple of minutes trying to find the origin of that audio.

Till now there was not easy solution to address this problem, you could mute the audio directly through your machine’s sound settings, but that means you will not hear audio when you need it.

Google Chrome has taken notice and has introduced a mute button in their latest release. If you are using Chrome, your browser in all probability has already got updated. From version 46.0.2490.71 onwards, Google has released tab specific Mute button.

Simply go to the specific tab that you want mute and right click on the top header bar of that specific tab and click on ‘Mute Tab’. Any auto playing video or an audio advt will be muted in that tab. So you can open any website without worrying about audio. As it is tab specific, you can easily play video or audio in the tabs that you want.

Muted tab will always have a mute sign shown, so you will know which tabs are muted and which are not. This mute tab really useful, Thanks to Google.