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Tech Services & Software Automatically mute background tabs in Chrome You don't have to try to figure out what's making noise on a particular page, this Chrome extension will do the work for you.

Mute Inactive Tabs is an extension that does it automatically. With the extension installed, any tab that’s in the background won’t be allowed to make noise.

To mute background tabs, click the speaker icon or right-click a tab and choose Mute tab. When you mouse over a tab playing audio, Opera displays an audio-levels icon, then changes to a speaker icon.

Opera Opera offers the best way to mute browser tabs, particularly if you have more than one background tab that has started playing audio. Just right-click your current tab and click Mute other tabs.

Tap the "Mute" icon -- a microphone icon with a diagonal line through it -- until the background on the button fills in, showing that you've muted your line.