As we’ve told the flag- Tab Audio Muting UI Control- that helps you mute individual tabs with a click has been removed in Chrome 71, if you’re looking for an alternative, look no further, we found Tab Muter extension, which almost replicates the same behavior, except that, you need to click on its icon on the toolbar than on speaker icon on the tab to mute a tab.
Tab Audio Muting UI in Chrome
To say the truth, Chrome never had Tab Muting UI control by default as Google told they’ve to police the content if they provide that as a feature. The company has cited maintenance, security and other as reasons for the flag removal, Chrome developer responsible for creating and removing the experimental feature, now suggesting users to use extensions for the same.
Now to mute individual tabs in Chrome, you need to right-click on the tab that is making noise and select ‘Mute Site’ option, yes! Muting tabs is an old thing and mute site is the new feature which Chromium team introduced with Chrome version 64.
Chrome 64: How to Mute and Unmute Sites
Tab Muter extension
Now a developer came up with an extension, saying Chrome developers removed the flag in favor of mute site and he developed this extension for the users, who looking to mute tabs like before with flag enabled.
The extension developer says the plugin button is in a different place (on the toolbar) due to Chrome API limitations, except that part, Tab Muter works exactly as old Mute tab feature did and he is right, we’ve tested it and its working fine.
The extension is available on Chrome Web Store here.