Setting to Mute Tabs by Default

TyrianMollusk

A setting under "Tab Muting" to default all tabs to muted state, unless manually un-muted.

LonM

This is currently available in future versions of chrome, and will end up in Vivaldi in a version or two. I can currently see such settings in the latest snapshot at chrome://settings/content/sound.

There is still some discrepancy between the chrome content settings and vivaldi's settings page though, but the functionality will soon be there.

TorvaFirmus

@lonm said in Setting to Mute Tabs by Default:

chrome://settings/content/sound.

In my opinion, this setting should not be hidden in vivaldi://settings/content/sound, but instead be on the vivaldi://settings/tabs/ configuration page so that it can easily be set by all users.

StefanMacz

this appears now to be the default behaviour and it's really annoying me. This should be an easily user adjustable OPTION not a pre-set decision to suit someone else's taste.
I just started up tab in YouTube music and clicked PLAY to hear....
....nothing.

I go to enable the audio in the tab and the mute icon has disappeared to be replaced by the red YouTube Music logo so I have to keep dancing my mouse pointer around the tab until the de-mute icon become accessible again so I can finally hear the flippin' music. (That's the polite version of what I'm thinking).

If was a constantly disappearing -x- close icon on tabs that was a nightmare to operate in Opera that was the final straw which caused me to uninstall Opera.
I do hope this 'tabs always open by default as muted', with an elusive, vanishing de-mute icon isn't going to provoke a similar response for Vivaldi.

StefanMacz

@StefanMacz ok, so playing around I entered

chrome://settings/content/sound

and set the "sites can play sound" to enabled which has resolved the issue which was annoying me, but his kind of begs the question....

...what does the "Play All Audio" option of "Mute Tab Audio" within settings actually do - if it doesn't de-mute audio for tabs ?

Is it like the button that had to be pressed every 108 minutes in Lost where nobody knew what exactly it did ? Is it just there because there has to BE a button. ?? ;p

paul1149

@StefanMacz I've suddenly developed the same problem. Tabs are opening muted, and the unmute button doesn't work.

What does work is right-clicking the tab and unmuting from the context menu.

But something is wrong, for the tabs to be opening muted. I have "play sound from all sites" enabled in settings.

StefanMacz

hey @paul1149

yeah it was infuriating. Seems to be default behaviour and I found it annoying.

I did find the solution though was to enter
"chrome://settings/content/sound"
into the address bar at the top

then set the "sites can play sound" to "enabled"

Solved the problem. In Settings... the "Play All Audio" option of "Mute Tab Audio" seems to do absolutely nothing.

paul1149

@StefanMacz I already had that option enabled. I toggled it in case somehow it lost the memo, but it did nothing. It is bizarre behavior and I can only conclude it is a bug.

StefanMacz

@paul1149 hmmh, odd.

You obviously have sounds working ok hardware-wise as you can get sound by using the right click context menu so it's quite clearly not a hardware problem nor a case of OS dependent audio routing and control.

The problem occurs in Vivaldi, and only in Vivaldi, and can be resolved in Vivaldi without needing to touch any other setting, anywhere else.

So it's definitely Vivaldi that's playing up.

There's no value to attempting to deflect the blame elsewhere (I say that just in case someone tries)

It does seem like there may be some additional setting somewhere which is causing this behaviour.

I suppose you could try the nuclear option of backing up your bookmarks and hopefully you're not using the password manager then completely delete, and fresh install. Pain in the proverbial to do that of course.

Hopefully someone here may be able to shed some light before needing to do anything too drastic, though this is not the busiest forum I've come across.

paul1149

I just started a new thread on it over in desktop / linux, but immediately afterward tried disabling all extensions and the problem went away. Then I reenabled them, and so far the problem hasn't returned. So I'm unsure of what's going on, but there's a good chance it's extension related. Hopefully it was a one-off.

StefanMacz

@paul1149 ah, those sneaky extensions!

Yeah I had a 'weird stuff happening' issue with Firefox one time and tried everything (except disabling the plug-ins) and when someone pointed out on their forum that it was probably an old plug-in up to no good, I disabled them all and the problem evaporated.

Those things are sometimes more trouble then they're worth!

Glad you got it sorted!