@Pesala said in Background Audio Tabs: Welcome to the Community. Here are a few links for your bookmarks that you may find useful: Thanks for telling me about this, sorry that I didn't see it earlier.

I'm also having this issue, at least it's known and being worked, though sad to see it's been an issue for 6+ months now. I just setup a web app in Edge for SirusXM since that works correctly.

@vinczej said in I can't hear Youzeek: But I detected an other problem with extensions. Please open new thread for your new issue.

@WeaponizedLego Thanks for your finding and testing. This can help other users having more complex audio speaker system.

Something you could try if you're desperate would be VLC. It has an "http" interface that you can put in a web panel: https://www.howtogeek.com/117261/how-to-activate-vlcs-web-interface-control-vlc-from-a-browser-use-any-smartphone-as-a-remote/

I would like to have this too. It is probably very easy since the feature is already made, just the option missing.

@Gwen-Dragon Thank You Gwen. I owe you one, no, two, perhaps more for all the help!

@iAN-CooG said in Automatically un-mute tabs that were playing when using "Prioritize active tab" option: As for now, you can set keyboard shortcuts to quickly mute all other tabs than the currently active one, and unmute all tabs, so it's just a matter of learning to press a key whenever you need it. You can certainly set keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures to unmute all tabs. But it doesn't work if there are more than one windows open. When I play spotify in one window and I have sound going on in another window, spotify stays muted. Doesn't matter if I try via mouse gestures or keyboard shortcut. I have to open the window with the spotify tab in order to get the gestures/shortcuts to work. As I said before, if the devs just didn't fuck around with the Prioritize Active Tab all of those issues would be resolved. I mean, the option even implies some sort of ranking order in which sound is muted/played, not just a simple on/off.

@Gwen-Dragon I agree, so it would need to be an "off by default" option.

@chegr I think after favicon it's a good idea, before the title then, it 's a better solution than this vivaldi's current one, even when you have a lot of tab shrunk, it needs title space.

A bump for your topic and report of similar problem in google hangouts: the microphone is muted. The icons for Mute, Hang up and Show settings are invisible but labels appear on mouseover. Those functions seem to work; many combinations of settings tried (mute/unmute of course) but mic remains muted Microphone works fine in e.g. audacity. MXLinux 18, Vivaldi 2.1.1337.51 Edit: the invisible buttons was caused by either uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger :oops: but disabling them did not solve microphone problem. Edit: Weird, mic now works here in g-phone with settings I had tried before: Vivaldi microphone=ask; g-phone microphone=built in analog stereo. Not necessary to disable extensions.

I saw Windows 10 1809 broke my Realtek audio and gave it lags or crackling. The drivers which Windows distributes may be broken or incomplete.

Meanwhile, as a workaround, you can add the website that you want to play audio (in the background) as a web panel.

@zeiglerxz That is a great idea! The android smartphone has a similar feature: When it's playing music, the usual set of buttons (previous song, stop, next song) is displayed on the lock screen and on the notification bar (I don't know what it's called). On the web browser, I'm often annoyed by how cumbersome it is to stop the sound from a tab when I have many tabs: Brows the tabbar to determine which tab is making the sound. Activate the tab and hit the stop button. You could say that I could hit the loud-speaker icon on the tab instead of step 2, but that would just shut the sound up without stopping the playing, which wastes some CPU resource.

@zdm Unfortunately, you can't set this as a default style. You could add it to it's own file under resources/vivaldi/user_files, then every time you come across this, open page actions and turn it on.

@ryanjohnjackson said in Slacking on standard features and bug response: The forum tends to hint that these issues either don't exist or no one will ever change them which makes me feel like I'm making a bad decision. The forum, understandably, tends to reflect people defending something they like when they get the feeling it's being devalued. But Vivaldi philosophy is to take user feedback into account and try to offer what's wanted - most popular first. But the reason for the existence of Vivaldi is new features, not copying other browsers. It is born out of a dissatisfaction with the mainstream, and it attracts new users only through its differences. Time spent aping the mainstream is time spent failing to attract eyeballs, and thus failing to ultimately have enough users to pay for itself. That said, there is also the effort afoot to keep from losing users because something new users would take for granted is not yet ready. The Team can't afford to short change either effort in pursuit of the other. It can't be either/or. It has to be both. There is in fact no slacking on "standard" features, and between five and fifty bugs are fixed every day. There are thousands to work through, and regressions are introduced weekly by changes in Chromium. And Vivaldi has to intake Chromium updates or risk both security holes and becoming incompatible with its own rendering engine. You're saying these things are on an official list that I missed somewhere? No official list. Just discussions with the Team. Why I want open in background as a default option: If I'm reading an article and the article references another link, I open that tab in the background as I read the article and keep reading. This is my default way of not getting distracted by new info. Having it as a secondary function takes me out of my reading every time. For now, it might help you to build a new habit with middle-click -I feel I need to shout about the default of background tab because it feels like it's part of the vivaldi culture No, no need to shout. Just upvote the existing feature request. Since there are already four ways to do it, it's not yet a priority to introduce an option to modify that menu. Bookmarks "with the unfinished Bookmarks Bar" I'm guessing you're saying it's not complete? That's correct. The bookmark icons issue exists for me in win 10 and mac 10.12 after importing from chrome Favicons aren't imported. They are fetched when sites are visited. Due to a difference in database structures, they can't be imported presently. But they are synced. To end, for me the browser is 95% to perfect. Once vid is fixed on mac and bookmarks bar behaves normally it's like 98%. That last 2% is my frustration with background tabs. I love all the other options, felt like this is left out on purpose since it's standard most the time. Video has been fixed on Mac more than once. Chromium and Mac OS updates keep breaking it. Hopefully a durable fix can be designed. Hope this isn't tl;dr lol Yeah, really, it was.

I moved it back now.