Reviews for Mute sites by default
Mute sites by default by abba23
Review by LezBoyd
Rated 4 out of 5
by LezBoyd, 6 years agoPerfect!!
There seems to have been a surge these days, in my country at least, of websites, even professional ones relating to stuff like financial services, etc., to have a "May I help you?" kinda helper bots pop up with an audible ding every time you access their webpages. It gets very tedious after a while.
This add-on is exactly what I needed! Well done, developer! Having a whitelist means I can easily and permanently unmute websites like youtube, etc.
My one nitpick is that there should be an option to hide the muted audio icon on each and every tab that is open. Someone like me who has tens of tabs open at a given time, it can look very crowded. I hope the developer take this into consideration for a future update. Else, perfect!
EDIT: I noticed that Developer has replied to another review regarding the audio icon, and suggested editing the userchrome.css to achieve the same. While this worked for me in regular tabs, it did not remove the icons from pinned tabs. Maybe developer can help me in this regard.
There seems to have been a surge these days, in my country at least, of websites, even professional ones relating to stuff like financial services, etc., to have a "May I help you?" kinda helper bots pop up with an audible ding every time you access their webpages. It gets very tedious after a while.
This add-on is exactly what I needed! Well done, developer! Having a whitelist means I can easily and permanently unmute websites like youtube, etc.
My one nitpick is that there should be an option to hide the muted audio icon on each and every tab that is open. Someone like me who has tens of tabs open at a given time, it can look very crowded. I hope the developer take this into consideration for a future update. Else, perfect!
EDIT: I noticed that Developer has replied to another review regarding the audio icon, and suggested editing the userchrome.css to achieve the same. While this worked for me in regular tabs, it did not remove the icons from pinned tabs. Maybe developer can help me in this regard.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoSorry, but I'm not an expert on the userchrome.css stuff and this isn't exactly the right place for support requests, especially if they aren't directly related to the addon (i.e. I can't do anything about it by changing the addon's code).
That said, I'm not sure why the workaround I suggested below doesn't work for pinned tabs as it should. People on the Mozilla Support Forum (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions) could probably help you with that though.
Edit:
I found this with a short Google search and it seems to work:
@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);
.tab-icon-overlay[muted], .tab-icon-sound[muted], .tab-icon-overlay[soundplaying], .tab-icon-sound[soundplaying] {
display: none !important;
}
I also added this to the corresponding issue on the Github repository for future reference (https://github.com/abba23/mute-sites-by-default/issues/1#issuecomment-385339727).
That said, I'm not sure why the workaround I suggested below doesn't work for pinned tabs as it should. People on the Mozilla Support Forum (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions) could probably help you with that though.
Edit:
I found this with a short Google search and it seems to work:
@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);
.tab-icon-overlay[muted], .tab-icon-sound[muted], .tab-icon-overlay[soundplaying], .tab-icon-sound[soundplaying] {
display: none !important;
}
I also added this to the corresponding issue on the Github repository for future reference (https://github.com/abba23/mute-sites-by-default/issues/1#issuecomment-385339727).
77 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11066976, 19 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by darkNiGHTS0, a month agoAdds a clickable mute icon to every tab whether or not it's playing sound. Ugly clutter.
- Rated 5 out of 5by yensama, 2 months agoIs there a way to keep the site icon in tab, instead of having every one be muted icon?
Also an alarm addon I use got muted as well. I have tried to add it to whitelist but no success. Any way to solve this? - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16550303, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by RexZero, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12581327, 7 months agoWorks great at what it is supposed to do but it it way too easy to accidentally unmute a tab when switching tabs. When you accidentally unmute a tab, you can't even quickly remute it in the same way but have use a right click menu every time. Even just having this be the opposite would be more helpful.
- Rated 5 out of 5by alay, 9 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Catboy Bebop, a year agoOnly thing that could make this better is if it could mute/unmute sites based on if a certain audio device (such as headphones) are connected or not. Granted, I'm on Windows, so I don't know if that'd work on other OSes, but it'd be nice to have.
- Rated 5 out of 5by lucasd, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Arno, 2 years agoThank you so much - muting domains instead of tabs was the number one Chrome feature I missed. This extension does exactly what I wanted and improves my browsing experience a lot.
I just added this to userChrome.css to remove the ugly "MUTED" label by Firefox:
.tab-secondary-label[muted] {
display: none !important;
} - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13480280, 2 years agoWhen I press ctrl+m it mutes/unmutes multiple tabs from the same domain, even though they have different subfolder address. I expected only the current tab to be affected and keep every other tab muted. Would be nice to have different keybinds to whitelist domain and mute/unmute current tab.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16259013, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Peter Lyons Kehl, 3 years agoThank you. Works well.
However, with most/all tabs muted, the "muted" icon next to each tab is taking space, it's visually noisy and it hides/replaces the site icon.
Remedy: Hide "muted" icon unless a tab is currently playing sound.
How? create "userChrome.css" file with the following content:
@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);
.tab-icon-overlay:not([soundplaying]) {
display: none;
}
.tab-icon-image:not([soundplaying]) {
opacity: 1 !important;
}
Save that file in chrome folder right under your Firefox profile folder. To locate that, open Firefox special URL about:support and see "Profile Directory". See also https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13286605, 3 years agoAs someone who forgets he left his speakers on, this addon has been a lifesaver.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16058521, 3 years agoDoesn't work anymore. Not sure why, not going to troubleshoot because an alternative is already working without issue, thanks for the last few years though!
Developer response
posted 3 years agoStill working fine for me. It's nice to hear that this has been useful to someone else over the last few years though. - Rated 1 out of 5by Yoksven, 3 years agoCouldn't unmute all tabs when decided to remove the addon. Spending precious time unmuting by hand. Pretty pissed.
- Rated 1 out of 5by TTeddy, 3 years agowhy EXACTLY this exists ?!?
if it add all by itself the very one site I REALLY NEED TO MUTE to exceptions ?!??!?!?!?!? - Rated 5 out of 5by DawnDawn121988, 3 years agoThis is great for those annoying mini videos that play on sites that you visit to download a freeware program. They pop up telling you how to install the same kind of programs over and over again its annoying. So this really helps with those videos.
- Rated 5 out of 5by zzz, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16896888, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Koray Biçer, 4 years agoAn essential add-on for Firefox. Congratulations on your great work.