Thank you google! I was just thinking about this problem the other day and was even contemplating trying to build something myself but then realized I probably just shouldn't have so many tabs open.
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Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
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Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
#52Bell in window 0
Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
#53I found a chrome extension a few months ago that does a lot of this. It's called MuteTab and bills itself as 'browser-wide granular sound management for chrome'. It's not perfect with flash, but makes a huge difference. http://www.mutetab.com/ EDIT: here's the github - https://github.com/PhilGrayson/MuteTabs
That is not the github. That project is "MuteTabs" which is different than MuteTab.
Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
#54Another example of this can be seen in the Web Speech API (http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html). You will need Chrome Canary in order to test.
I'm currently building a voice-to-text transcriber using the Web Speech API.
Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
#55While I'll be glad for the audio indicators why not just mute every tab by default? Any user interaction on a page would unmute that tab.
Can I also get a bandwidth/data transfer rate indicator per tab too?
Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
#56Great news. An indicator for CPU usage would be great too.
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#57Firefox bug for this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486262
I'm curious if it will be possible to get this feature working in Firefox. Since other posts here indicate that this was possible for Flash because it is using the Pepper stack and since Firefox has said they do not plan to adopt Pepper ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729481 ), I wonder how possible this will be. This feature could significantly negatively affect Firefox's market share.
The bug indeed seems to conclude it's impossible until Flash is eradicated, though disabling Flash in anything but the foreground tab + click to play will probably make it moot. (Apparently Safari does exactly this)
There's alternatives such as Shumway.
Also, in my experience lack of Flash or it crashing is seen as a way bigger problem than nasty tabs, as of now.
Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
#58Happy to see this. I frequently keep a ton of tabs open and hate being startled by a random one making noise through an ad. In Fact, about a year ago I wrote a sticky note to myself to make this as an extension for a side project. Never did get around to it...
Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
#59Firefox bug for this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486262
I would also love a simple indicator of which tabs are 'busy' consuming cycles or generating garbage, so I know which tabs to kill first to get back to acceptable performance. (Perhaps even just a rough indicator of how many setTimeout()s are originating from a page would be enough.)
I wish there was a simple way to suspend all open tabs. I really have no need to refreshing disquis-comments or some crazy scripts that track my mouse pointer to generate heat maps.
I even tried to write a little chrome extension which injects a content script into every open tab, which calls settimer to get the highest timer-id and kills all timers with ids from 1 to this id. But for some reason it didn't work.
Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
#60This is pretty great, but I'm dismayed that it's even needed because someone somewhere started the trend of triggering audio without the user's interaction.
"CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'RE A WINNER!"
Congratulations, you're a jackass. You do NOT interrupt Black Sabbath.