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Tab Volume Icon

Unread post by UserPATRICKJANE » 2017-11-08, 10:05

Firefox has this feature done perfectly by default... the icon in tabs to show and to mute audio sounds on a web-page. With PaleMoon I am using the "expose noisy tabs" addon (https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/expose-noisy-tabs/), but this addon, unlike the Firefox feature, does not work for all pages that have sound (viewtopic.php?t=15842). Firefox can mute flash, html, or any other audio.

Considering being able to see and mute audio in a tab is from my viewpoint a vital feature of browsing, and that the "expose noisy tabs" addon does not work for all audio, I wonder if a perfectly functioning version of this could be incorporated by default into PaleMoon, as in Firefox, instead of the imperfect expose noisy tabs addon? :?: :idea:

Do others agree it is a vital feature?

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Re: Tab Volume Icon

Unread post by Moonraker » 2017-11-08, 11:03

For me not really a needed function.i open 1-2 tabs at the most and i use the os volume control.i really cannot see the point in such an add-on.if its you-tube then i use volume controls.
or maybe im just missing the point.?
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Re: Tab Volume Icon

Unread post by Night Wing » 2017-11-08, 11:46

UserPATRICKJANE wrote:Firefox has this feature done perfectly by default... the icon in tabs to show and to mute audio sounds on a web-page. With PaleMoon I am using the "expose noisy tabs" addon (https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/expose-noisy-tabs/), but this addon, unlike the Firefox feature, does not work for all pages that have sound (viewtopic.php?t=15842). Firefox can mute flash, html, or any other audio.
Can you post a link or two so we can check these pages out?
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Re: Tab Volume Icon

Unread post by Moonchild » 2017-11-08, 13:39

@userPATRICKJANE: Please understand that we are not Firefox, and we do not have, nor aim to have, the exact same feature set Firefox has. If these changes are imperative for your use, then you may want to consider sticking with Firefox; we aren't likely to adopt UI-based and operational differences (or at least not any time soon).
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Re: Tab Volume Icon

Unread post by van p » 2017-11-08, 15:16

UserPATRICKJANE wrote:Do others agree it is a vital feature?
No.
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Re: Tab Volume Icon

Unread post by adesh » 2017-11-08, 16:46

I personally do not need this feature, although it may be a good candidate for feature parity and marketing stuff.
I almost never have maultiple tabs playing audio/video as I always keep autoplay off, and if something is playing in my browser, I can easily get to it (without much help).

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Re: Tab Volume Icon

Unread post by UserPATRICKJANE » 2017-11-17, 18:53

Moonchild wrote:@userPATRICKJANE: Please understand that we are not Firefox, and we do not have, nor aim to have, the exact same feature set Firefox has. If these changes are imperative for your use, then you may want to consider sticking with Firefox; we aren't likely to adopt UI-based and operational differences (or at least not any time soon).
I agree completely that PM is not FF, I wouldn't want you to be, which is why I am here (I use PM because I don't like FF). If FF didn't have the feature I would want it. It's not that I want it because FF has it, I simply think it is a great/helpful feature: to be able find where sound is coming from when multiple tabs are in use (I often have 20+ tabs open) and to mute the noisy tab via the tab instead of going into the page to find the mute button. I merely referenced FF as an indication to show the feature I want.

Sadly others don't seem to appreciate the value of such noise indication and muting ability.

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Re: Tab Volume Icon

Unread post by UserPATRICKJANE » 2017-11-17, 18:59

Night Wing wrote:Can you post a link or two so we can check these pages out?
LOL, blush, :oops: myfreecams and chaturbate :lol:

So I'm searching for the perfect model, and I've got about 20 tabs or more (prior to whittling down the selection), and I want to mute/unmute as I browse, flicking back and forth from cam room to cam room, checking out which one is best. Muting tabs in the scenario is very handy.

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Re: Tab Volume Icon

Unread post by mike18xx » 2017-12-12, 00:01

UserPATRICKJANE wrote:Do others agree it is a vital feature?
YES.

In fact, the ability to mute tabs has rapidly shot up to maybe my #2 most-wanted feature out of this application. It is especially necessary if, like many of you out there, you have a ton of radio-station tabs set up (using Tab Mix Plus' multi-row feature which why the heck are you not using this already what's wrong with you?), and like to smack the currently-running one upside the head when it takes a commercial break. Expose Noisy Tabs, for example, works fine on SHE, but not on KQRS or Hippo.

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Re: Tab Volume Icon

Unread post by yereverluvinuncleber » 2017-12-12, 17:51

I'd agree that it is a nice feature that FF has, that I have grown accustomed to by dint of its utility. There is actually very little of recent FF that I would rate as being of singular improved use but this is it, a very useful function that might not be so hard to implement, here's hoping that is the case and it is accepted onto the roadmap... My feedback.
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Re: Tab Volume Icon

Unread post by New Tobin Paradigm » 2017-12-12, 17:58

Question: Does Basilisk have this feature?

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Re: Tab Volume Icon

Unread post by yereverluvinuncleber » 2017-12-12, 18:11

For me the greatest utility from this function is gained when you have a tab that for some reason starts playing, a youtube video for example, hidden amongst your 30 or so open tabs. I can simply grab the tab bar and scroll up/down until I find the offending sound-producing tab.

An example of this just happened just then. In PM I switched to a youtube tab (one of many), opened it, it stalled for a second or two whilst loading and then it started playing. However, I had already scrolled to the end, opened another tab and was doing something else and it was next to impossible to determine which PM tab was producing all the noise. Muted the system instead and then set to finding it by process of elimination.

In FF it has a speaker icon on the tab. Found.
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Re: Tab Volume Icon

Unread post by SpockFan02 » 2017-12-12, 18:28

I have used this feature in other browsers, including Firefox, and find it quite handy. For Pale Moon, I also use Expose Noisy Tabs, and while I have not encountered a situation in which it was not able to mute a tab due to the media format, I can see why it's annoying. I would be in support of integration of this feature, with the ability to mute any tab with audio, but I can understand if it does not happen. I wonder if Expose Noisy Tabs could be extended to work for Flash audio, or if another extension could do it.

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Re: Tab Volume Icon

Unread post by yereverluvinuncleber » 2017-12-12, 18:44

Expose Noisy Tabs, tried it, it works for me, very useful feature. The majority of my viewing listening is done via html5 providers. No Flash porn for me.
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Re: Tab Volume Icon

Unread post by mike18xx » 2017-12-14, 08:49

yereverluvinuncleber wrote:Expose Noisy Tabs, tried it, it works for me, very useful feature. The majority of my viewing listening is done via html5 providers. No Flash porn for me.
The problem with that add-on is that it only works with Flash-sources of audio.

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