You can no longer mute tabs in Chrome from version 64 onwards, the browser allows to mute sites only (not the individual tabs), let us see how we can do the latter.
Mute individual tabs in Chrome 64+
I. Here you can keep Site wide audio muting option and enable tab muting option, for that
1. Visit chrome://flags
2. Search for ‘Tab Audio muting UI control’ flag or visit chrome://flags/#enable-tab-audio-muting
3. Select ‘Enabled’ and Restart the browser.
Now you can able to mute a tab that is playing audio by clicking on volume icon.
You should also note Tab Context menu still shows ‘Site Mute’ option, but not ‘Tab Mute’, if you want the latter back, you’ve to disable Site muting, here is how that can be done.
UPDATE December 4, 2018: The Tab Audio Muting UI Control flag has been removed by Google, in Chrome 71 if you’re looking to mute individual tabs with a click like before, use Tab Muter extension.
Disable Site Muting option in Chrome
1. Visit chrome://flags
2. Search for Sound Content Setting and set it to Disabled
3. Close and reopen the Chrome browser.
Now right click on the tab that is playing audio and choose ‘Mute tab’, that tab will be muted, you can able to unmute the tab like before.
Do know the flags are experimental features, may not last long, can be removed by Google or disappear at any time.
Thanks a ton for the quick and straightforward guide! It helped me a lot. :)
Perfect fix for exactly the problem I ran into. Thank you.
Exactly what i need, thank you so much.
For everyone who wants to have there mute tab not mute site:
chrome://flags/#sound-content-setting
disabled this!
Thanks, Sheep, that worked a charm!
awesome thanks!
Never would’ve thought that’d reenable muting tabs
its not the same, sometimes you want to mute a tab that isn’t making noise right now but will later on.
i cant understand how they remove a feature and give us a worst product
i removed my chrome, only firefox and opera for me now
Thank you so much!
You’re welcome Alex.
Thanks a ton! :D I hated that new feature. I kept muting sites and forgetting to unmute them when I wanted them to make sound again. That was annoying and this fixed it.
When I enabled the Mute Tab button, it didn’t work for me. I had to enable the Mute Tab and disable the Mute Site to get it to work.
THANKS IT WORKS!
All chrome://flags are considered experimental. Google giveth and they will taketh away. One day the chrome://flags/#sound-content-setting setting will disappear, too, and users will be stuck with Google’s remaining choice to mute all tabs for a site. I want muting by tab, just like before. Google has not provided reasonable explanations for why they removed this feature. Alas, many of the bug tickets requesting changes in Chrome are made and discussed by a few select elite users that do not represent even a reasonable sampling of the user community. Hopefully when Google yanks chrome://flags/#sound-content-setting the Tab Muter extension will still work to mute individual tabs. This extension has only one purpose: to restore tab-specific muting. Maybe the author will collaborate with other muting extension authors, like for Mute Tab (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mutetab/acofndgbcimipbpeoplfjcapdbebbmca) to add more features, like letting users choose the default audio behavior when opening new tabs. With Mute Tab, I can configure it to default to muting the tabs. That way, I don’t get blasted by impolite sites that blare loud audio because they just must start their videos when you land on their site. I had to add the Mute Tab extension to overcome a deficiency in Chrome’s configurability. I now have to add Tab Muter to overcome a feature that Google took away. Google isn’t about making a web browser for its users. They are about providing a venue for the web sites to push content at you whether you want it or not.
chrome://flags/#enable-tab-audio-muting doesn’t exist anymore on “chrome://flags site” ! (Dec 14th, 2018) “Sound content setting” does but putting it in2 ‘disable’, relaunching Chrome does nothing…still cannot clk on tab ‘spkr’ icon for mute, arrrghh…why’d they pull this option for heavensake ?!! ;-|
https://techdows.com/2018/10/chrome-tab-audio-muting-ui-control-flag-removed.html
https://techdows.com/2018/11/chrome-71-mute-tabs-with-a-click-tab-muter-extension.html
Booo!!!! Bring back muting via the icon in the tab!!
Thank you
This doesn’t work anymore. These options have been taken out. Are there anything to do now?
Use Tab Muter extension https://techdows.com/2018/11/chrome-71-mute-tabs-with-a-click-tab-muter-extension.html