Great news. An indicator for CPU usage would be great too.
You can already do that. Use the Chrome Task Manager. http://googlechrometutorial.com/google-chrome-other-settings...
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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Only if it works reliably though. I wonder whether they can make it work with plugins. Maybe you'd have to get a hook with some platform specific OS API that tells you when sound is playing (does this even exist though)? You could then match this to user interactions within the browser - did the user click inside my browser window when the event started? Then it's probably happening within that tab and I'm gonna show…
Safari won't run any flash animation until you actually have the tab active and is pretty reliable. I'll be happy if they do that.
I'd not want this for audio, what about pandora in a tab, I don't want it active to listen to the music.
Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
#103Good idea but: How about visual indicators of CPU-burning tabs, especially when in the background? How about a ctrl-C that kills all JavaScript executing in the foreground page (or something)? In my experience Chrome is good for three infinite loops or similar bugs before it needs to be restarted (manually process killed in Windows) while Firefox is pretty much dead after one. Isn't Chrome the "one thread per tab" br…
The CPU feature already exists. Check out the Chrome Task Manager: http://googlechrometutorial.com/google-chrome-other-settings...
Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Safari won't run any flash animation until you actually have the tab active and is pretty reliable. I'll be happy if they do that.
I'd not want this for audio, what about pandora in a tab, I don't want it active to listen to the music.
It won't start the animation until you view the tab, but it will continue to play it when you move away.
Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
#105If you're curious about the HTML5 version of YouTube, you can opt-in at https://youtube.com/html5
Definitely worth checking out. Unfortunately, HTML5 YouTube players seem to start playing automatically, so I can’t just open links to YouTube videos in background tabs.
I look forward to a setting (or simply changing the default for non-active windows) to disable autoplay.
Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
#106If you're curious about the HTML5 version of YouTube, you can opt-in at https://youtube.com/html5
Definitely worth checking out. Unfortunately, HTML5 YouTube players seem to start playing automatically, so I can’t just open links to YouTube videos in background tabs. I look forward to a setting (or simply changing the default for non-active windows) to disable autoplay.
The Flash version of YouTube auto-plays for me, so it's about the same.
Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
#107wonder how it is implemented. How can chrome possibly know if a flash or silver-light is playing a sound ?
Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
#108If you are excited with this feature, you should probably try "click to play" for plugins.
That's the first thing that came to my mind too. I can't remember the last time I had this problem. Click to play + AdBlock = no unknown sounds.
Re: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
If you have one channel in the system audio mixer for every channel that the system is playing then yes: you can just see what channel is active and mute it. Like on any old mixing desk.