Reviews for Mute sites by default
Mute sites by default by abba23
68 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14090712, 7 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.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jilles, 7 years agoSeems to work as advertised. I'd love for it to have the ability to prevent html5 movies from playing as well unless whitelisted.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13081131, 8 years agoUsing in Firefox Nightly 58.0a1, working beautifully. No more blaring audio from some webpage. Thank you!