6/30/2023 0 Comments Firefox developer edition nightlyThat said, it shouldn’t take longer than just a few months. Still, Mozilla told VentureBeat last week there is no “estimated timeline” for when the feature will be available to all Firefox users. The company wants to offer the indicator and muting functionality together, and the fact it has landed in Firefox Nightly means it will be on its way through the developer, beta, and release channels. Mozilla’s implementation works with all APIs that let you play audio (including HTML5 audio and video tags, Web Audio, and the latest Flash beta). The option is available in Google’s browser, but it’s not enabled by default (you have to turn on the #enable-tab-audio-muting flag in chrome://flags/). That said, while Chrome has had audio indicators for more than a year now, it still doesn’t let you easily mute tabs. Back in February 2013, we first heard audio indicators were coming to Chrome, and indeed, the feature arrived in January 2014 with the launch of Chrome 32. This functionality has been available as browser add-ons and extensions for a while, but users want it built into the browser. Because this is a cumbersome task, projects release Nightly-version to the public, and let the community participate on this testing. After a successful build is made, the developers then test whether their newest changes are working well together with the newest changed of other developers. As shown in the screenshot above, I was able to click on the speaker icon to mute the YouTube tab without leaving the VentureBeat tab. The downside is that nighly-versions are untested. The best part is that you can mute a tab without having to switch to it first. Here is a tab audio indicator and muting in action:
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