Volume slider for each tab
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Hello!
This is a thought I came across rather often lately, especially when having tabs opened making different sounds, all with different priority. Muting tabs or managing the browsers total master volume doesn't help here + some webpages simply come without volume sliders, potentially killing your ears with some ad or similar surprises when you listen to some rather calm tab. Now you can mute tabs with ads, yet there may be things you still want to be able to hear, just not as loud as any other thing from your browser.
I learnt to know and appreciate Vivaldi, especially the heaps of customization options, so I thought of just searching to get a working solution. Unless I searched in all the wrong places, it looked like noone yet adressed this problem - this is what took me here.
My idea for the ideal implemention would look the same as the current slider for zoom level at the bottom bar. Staying in one position for all tabs, yet displaying and setting a different level for each tab. As long as it's properly indicated which is for sound and which is for zoom, they easily could look the same and be next to each other.
I'm not really tech savvy enough to hint at a possible implementions, something along the lines of "manipulate all existing volume sliders in an open tab" could maybe do the trick, in my imagination though :). For pages lacking those, a master volume level could help.
I'd be glad to hear any feedback on this idea, mad happy if you could do it.
Greetings,
Cyrant -
Uh, I just realized this went into the wrong forum section. If a mod feels like moving it to suggestions/tabs, I'd be thankful.
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This should go on the feature request board.
I do like this idea. Couldn't this be solved in the settings.
Settings>Tabs>Tab Muting by ticking "play in open tab" only you would get the level
you have already set for that webpage. Leaving any and all other pages with audio set to
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@cyrant Please vote for the existing feature request.
If you add this link as a web panel you can easily search for other feature requests simply by changing the search string from "Volume" to any other term. Enclose more than one word in quotes to search for a precise phrase.
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@pesala Funny enough I've seen this while searching but wasn't sure whether it meant the feature I described. If it is implemented that way it'd be great too, any way to get this improved!
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@cyrant I don't think it will ever happen though. As luetage says in that thread:
I think this is very hard to do. It is possible to mute tabs and chrome provides an api for this – but the simple fact is that the operating system controls the audio levels of input/output devices, and each application just has one sound level control in the internal mixer.
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@pesala The thread you quoted from was a proposal to have the volume levels of different tabs on the windows mixer. While similar in effect, I think its still a very different solution from a technical point of view. That suggestion would have the browser manipulate windows functions.
My proposal differs from that in the level of execution:
It is already possible to mute tabs within the browser, so I assume there might be a way to manipulate volume levels there aswell - there wouldn't be a necessity to manipulate the windows mixer. -
For anyone visiting this old thread in the hope to find a solution to this problem: this plugin does exactly what OP suggested and is compatible with Vivaldi: volume-master
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Ppafflick moved this topic from Vivaldi for Windows on
