Post #1885506
2026-04-30 12:32 UTC
Fun new #Firefox feature just landed in nightly. Ever sick of background tabs playing audio and not being able to find them? You can now type "shush" in the url bar to get a button that will mute the audio. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2019338)
Replies (4)
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@kyle@mastodon.kylemacquarrie.co.uk 2026-04-30 12:51
@dale that sounds like a fun localisation job 😅
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@aburka@hachyderm.io 2026-04-30 17:00
@dale Good idea but it should just be a button in the toolbar
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@fabienmarry@mastodon.social 2026-04-30 17:06
@dale @Meyerweb zero discoverability. How about a mute speaker toolbar button? (Apologies if there is already one)
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@siwek@social.tooinconsistent.com 2026-04-30 20:05
@dale It's really useful, especially after restoring a session with hundreds of tabs and something starts randomly playing in the background. I do think safari's take on it is slightly friendlier from the UX perspective. Basically if any tab is playing it shows a speaker in the url bar (next to translate and refresh). Clicking on it mutes all tabs, but what I find more useful is right-click will list all tabs that are currently playing audio, so you can just close the tab itself.