@leocg I am ignorant in my ignorance. All I know is that I know nothing. Still unacceptable. What is the final solution for completely nuking the tab audio indicator? It is annoying as hell. All I want is to be able to click on my tab that is playing audio without it muting.

I do not want to stop using opera due to this behaviour. Opera is the browser of all time.

What is even more infuriating is that there used to be this little flag called "#tab-audio-indicator", I repeat "#tab-audio-indicator". Disable. Why in unholy Satin's 666 name was it removed? At least bring it back. Back in Black.

There was an even an extension that tackled this crap. But of course it was thrown down the internet's memory hole. Make the tab audio indicator static for people that do want to keep their sanity.

Gee, it's almost as if corporations and developers and service providers want to drive their users absolutely livid and mad. This is going to backfire.

Sheeple, rise up. Except no one wants to rise up. Nobody listened to that Black Flag's Rise Above song, ever.

Oh but right, Mr. Devs do not even read this forum so it is useless to go on a schizoburger tirade here. I should direct my energy and undying unyielding endless nameless anger at something more productive.

By the way, this is not passive-aggressiveness. It is outright aggression. Perhaps I should shut my airhole before I get banned in less than a week after joining. Except I will not shut up.

Not even the first place that bans me. It's fun.

All I want is a functional usable browser. I want things to actually work.

I used to use opera on android a few years ago because there is simply nothing better for browsing both on desktop and mobile.

I like opera for mobile due to the native/built-in night mode and adblocker plus many other things. Chrome f**ks you over and does not even (Easily. And as far as I know) let you get rid of the ads ridden with viruses and malware. On top of that I found no way to prevent my eyes from burning with white light on websites. Just the usual google things.

Firefox lets you install (very limited choice of) add-ons and it does the job. However, it is no opera.

It was all good and dandy with opera, until I contacted opera support to requested developers to fix some aspects of a website I frequent: last.fm.

The developers were quick to tell me there was nothing to fix but I refuted and provided proof. Mostly white areas I wanted to be dark.

Then they also reluctantly told me "oh, sure, sure, we will fix it, don't worry".

Cue London Calling Now get this: Not only did they not address my request or fixed anything, they completely disabled night mode on the entirety of last.fm. I know because night mode is perfectly functional on any other website. I did not imagine this. Am I crazy? I may be. But I am not insane.

You purposely drove me away from using the web-browser that I love. Why? To spite me? To make me angry? Because you can and have power?

Congratulations, you did. I am always angry anyway. That is my secret. That is why I am here now. Is this how you treat your users? What are you, Microsoft?

Am I sounding passive-aggressive? No. This is outright aggression because I want to use opera on android.

I did not forget. It has been like 5 years. Unbelievable. I am taking my browser back.

Today I broke the silence.

You can also lock this thread immediately, even better, delete it forever and throw it down the internet's memory hole.

King Théoden: "You have no power here!".

With the latest update, some annoying bug sprung up. I can no longer freely drag open tabs along the tabs toolbar. This is essential.

So there's the opera flags page and there is this glorious setting:

Tab audio muting UI control
When enabled, the audio indicators in the tab strip double as tab audio mute controls. - Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, Fuchsia, Lacros

#enable-tab-audio-muting

Which I have set to 'disabled', because I really hate the audio indicator. I want it gone or at lest static.

Disabling this option should do the trick, except it does not.

Help me keep my sanity.

Windongs 10. Latest Opera version.

@boldy-82: There is but you don't need it, mang.