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Mute a Tab in Chrome

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You're watching VisiHow. In the previous tutorial, we used "Data Miner". This is a tutorial on how to mute a tab in the Chrome browser.

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To begin, open a browser window with a tab in the background
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One of the features that Google has recently added to the Chrome browser is that when you open a tab in the background, it does not automatically start playing the sounds from the page until you click it.

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Once the tab with audio is clicked, it starts playing the sound
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You can tell which tab is playing audio by the small speaker icon on the tab.

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To turn the audio off, you can right-click the tab from any other tab
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Then click "Mute Tab" in the menu that appears
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Once you've clicked "Mute Tab", the audio within this tab will no longer be played.

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To enable sound for the tab, right-click the tab
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Click "Unmute Tab"
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