Reviews for Mute sites by default
Mute sites by default by abba23
81 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14478932, 6 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Kta, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12772200, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kilmi, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by randint, 6 years agoNice addon. I was looking for this for a long long time. Great job.
Often, a lot of tabs play loud noise when I open them up.
Now, I won't ever need to worry. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14228879, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by 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.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). - Rated 5 out of 5by mozmeister, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12857193, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14100966, 6 years agoI never knew I needed this in my life. I have to do virtual labs for school and they always open in a new tab. They make loud clicking sounds any time I move something around in the virtual lab. By muting every site by default and remembering sites that have been un-muted like YouTube. Simple but great.
- Rated 4 out of 5by WRCS-UK, 6 years agoThis brilliant extension would be greatly improved by an option to permit automatic un-muting of the focused tab.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14090712, 6 years agoWorks perfectly......love it.....has helped so much.
- Rated 5 out of 5by sudowtf, 7 years agoinnovative whitelist feature; THANKS!
maybe the reverse could be a thing too (all unmuted except blacklist) -- it would look like this:
white list = always UNmuted.
blacklist = always muted.
everything else(default action): we select option as either muted or unmuted.
this would give us maximum flexibility. - Rated 5 out of 5by MMF, 7 years agoGreat! Originally thought that the speaker icon was enabled by this plugin: "I am only missing an option to remove the speaker icon as it gets hard to hit that in pinned or small tabs!"
The speaker icon is enabled by Firefox and is independent of this plugin. You can disable it via "browser.tabs.showAudioPlayingIcon" in the Firefox settings!
Also thanks to abba23 for responding in a helpful manner :)Developer response
posted 7 years agoUnfortunately the speaker icon is part of Firefox' mute functionality and appears automatically. As far as I know, it's not yet possible to disable it using WebExtensions.
You could hide it yourself though by adding something like this
@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);
.tabbrowser-tab :-moz-any(.tab-icon-sound,.tab-icon-overlay[muted]) {
display: none;
}
to your userChrome.css (https://www.userchrome.org). - Rated 5 out of 5by baltimore-recyclers, 7 years agoIt's a minor thing if your are going down the highway, and as you get a near a town you start seeing billboards.
But what if instead, your nice tunes on the stereo got interrupted with blaring advertisements?
It's a damn shame, but that's what the internet has become with all of the advertisement spending.
Thanks, very much, for developing and posting this add-on. It should be a Firefox default. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12654240, 7 years agoIt is frustrating and embarrassing when Bloomberg blasts audio in a quiet shared office setting. This add-on mutes all sites by default until they're added to the whitelist. Clicking on the unmute icon on the tab adds the site to a whitelist. Some sites like YouTube are expected to always play audio and adding those sites to the whitelist makes a lot of sense. While stopping video from playing is nice to have, muting audio from playing is a MUST HAVE productivity tool. Love it! Highly recommend.
This message is not a paid advertisement. It is my personal endorsement towards how helpful this add-on is to me. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13848490, 7 years agoEssential addon, could we block domains without needing www. infront? Would love to block autoplay vids too
Developer response
posted 7 years agoBlocking audio on specific subdomains could be useful for some people, so I'd rather not remove that feature. It might be a good idea though to add some way to block audio for the whole domain (*.example.com) or specific pages (example.com/example). I will have a look at that.
Blocking autoplay videos is actually pretty difficult, because as far as I know, you basically have to implement it separately for every player/website, which is a lot of work, prone to breaking on changes, and difficult to maintain. That's not really something I plan on doing. A workaround might be disabling media.autoplay.enabled in about:config, which disables autoplay on all sites. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13456114, 7 years agoDe todos los que he probado, es el que mas se ajusta a mis necesidades.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13256801, 7 years agoEndlich eine Möglichkeit unerwünschte Sounds stumm zu schalten.
Eine einfache, aber geniale Idee! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13499382, 7 years agoI HATE (!) pages that play unasked sound. Thank you for this important addon.