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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

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Post by sovok »

andyhmltn wrote: post #64
Tyr42 wrote: post #41

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I'm pretty sure it's just starting the animation.

Can confirm this. It was a good feature when using youtube. I usually search for something then shift+click about 4-5 links and watch them one by one. In chrome you have to go into each on of those tabs and pause the video to avoid a clusterf*ck of different sounds. With safari it seems to do it automatically.

The "Stop Autoplay for Youtube" Extension helps with that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stop-autoplay-for-...

Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs

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Post by Aardwolf »

primitur wrote: post #79
Aardwolf wrote: post #76

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What do you mean? A browser knows which of its tabs are doing what, the OS has no idea of the concept of tabs in one browser.

Every audio stream in the OS should be backed up with an OS-based Mixer control, is my point. We had it in BeOS and now it seems .. its finally possible in Win7 .. but yeah .. these aren't the only OS's around to run Chrome on ..

So if you have 50 tabs open, the OS should expose 50 audio sliders somewhere??? How will you know which one is for which tab? Also, isn't it better to be able to CLOSE that tab rather than letting it continue play audio and just mute it?

Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs

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Post by Aardwolf »

alan_cx wrote: post #70
j45 wrote: post #56

Great news. An indicator for CPU usage would be great too.

I would love that too. Blows my mind sometimes how much CPU some pages or sites use. One of my kids plays Moshi Monsters, and that seems to challenge the CPU more than even Far cry 3. Which to me is absurd. I suppose that would be something to do with MM not using the GPU? So yeah, a CPU indicator in the tab could be handy.

Moshi Monsters must use some very realistic monster fur rendering if it's heavier than Far cry 3 ;)

Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs

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Post by k-mcgrady »

mike_esspe wrote: post #50

If you are excited with this feature, you should probably try "click to play" for plugins.

The main use I have for the new Chrome feature wouldn't be to find out where audio was playing that I hadn't started, it would be to find out which tab was playing audio if I had lots of YouTube tabs open and I couldn't remember which one I had played.

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Post by mehrzad »

roryokane wrote: post #69
jaredsohn wrote: post #37

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Use Chrome's "click to play" feature or extensions such as Flashblock or "Stop Autoplay" if this is your problem. This feature is more useful generally.

Links to extensions that stop autoplay: for Chrome – extension “Stop Autoplay for YouTube” https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stop-autoplay-for-... for Firefox – user script “YouTube Auto Buffer & Auto HD & Remove Ads” http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/49366

Youtube Center is probably miles ahead of both of those.

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Post by alan_cx »

Aardwolf wrote: post #94
alan_cx wrote: post #70

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I would love that too. Blows my mind sometimes how much CPU some pages or sites use. One of my kids plays Moshi Monsters, and that seems to challenge the CPU more than even Far cry 3. Which to me is absurd. I suppose that would be something to do with MM not using the GPU? So yeah, a CPU indicator in the tab could be handy.

Moshi Monsters must use some very realistic monster fur rendering if it's heavier than Far cry 3 ;)

Dunno mate. But I do wish I could hunt and skin the little buggers, like in FC3!!!

Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs

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Post by jaredsohn »

DeepDuh wrote: post #65
jaredsohn wrote: post #23

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That's basically what the MuteTab Chrome extension does (although since extensions don't have access to OS functions, it doesn't tell you if anything is playing a sound or not.) But with the new code they at the very least have it working with Flash. You can try it out right now by downloading a canary build and going to a Flash site (such as homestarrunner.com.) The reason it works now while it didn't before is that…

> although since extensions don't have access to OS functions, it doesn't tell you if anything is playing a sound or not and that's why this should be a browser feature and not an extension.

Agreed. MuteTab development was started back in Fall 2010 when it wasn't clear to me if Adobe would ever work toward making the changes required to enable such a feature.

The extension may live on if there are features that people want but that Google decides do not need to be a part of the browser.

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