An option to disable the "mute tab" button
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devilears last edited by
Too bad as I really want to use Opera as my main browser but I can't because the mute button keeps muting content when I don't want it to be muted.
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devilears last edited by
So besides bringing this to the attention in as far as I am aware is the proper way to do it, what else can I do to request that user configuration settings that were once there and working return to Opera again?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
what else can I do to request that user configuration settings that were once there and working return to Opera again?
Nothing much, maybe do a comment on Desktop Team blog explaining the reasons why there should be such option. However, like happens with any requests, there aren't any guarantees that they will implement it.
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A Former User last edited by
Why is it desirable to have more than one tab sounding at the same time?
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devilears last edited by
I'm still struggling to understand why it is desirable to have a mute button on a tab.
If you have for example a video playing on Facebook and Youtube on separate tabs, it makes sense to notify the user of the tabs that have audio playing. If they ant to stop that audio, they can right click and mute the tab.
My request is merely to keep everyone happy: Do you want to use the mute button? Fine. Use it. Do you struggle to make sense of a mute button? Then just disable it, which is something that is allowed by the underlying chrome engine.
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A Former User last edited by
I prevent media from autostarting, so I have no need for a mute button.
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devilears last edited by
I prevent media from autostarting, so I have no need for a mute button.
That solves a different problem, though. My use case is there is already media playing on a tab. I often put a Youtube video on or a podcast or something to listen to the audio while I do something else. Then, when I switch back to the tab with media playing on it by clicking on it, the audio gets muted with a magic mute button that appears out of nowhere.
There used to be a way to disable this magic mute button. Chrome still has this option, which is why I'm currently using Chrome as my main browser. I have to dig in the flags section and disable the enable-tab-audio-muting flag, but it does work to keep my audio going.
This exact flag setting used to be available in Opera, and I would just like the option back.
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devilears last edited by
I just hover my mouse cursor over the tab with the audio and I click. There is suddenly a mute button that mutes the tab.
On Chrome, the offending tabs always display the mute button. So I can see them and I don't click on them. Also, I can disable them, so even if I do click on them, they relay information, but they don't interfere with the media on the tab.
The sides are switched, on Chrome they are on the right hand side. On Opera, they appear on the left hand side of the tab. Not that this matters, but I'm just assuming someone went through a lot of trouble to make things on Opera different than what they already get with the Chrome engine.
I just saw now that I can install older versions of Opera from the FTP site. I would prefer using the latest and greatest versions, but if that is what it takes, I recall that there was an Opera version without the featuritis that just did its job. Even the developer versions were working. I'll see what that version was and then just disable updates so I can disable this mute button.
