248235 - Mute option so that browser process emits no sound

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 24418

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Ali Ebrahim]

With so many flash sites making noise, and even worse, today's crop of video
advertisements, it would be good if Firefox could implement an option to mute
the browser process, so that the browser process would always remain silent if
this option was enabled.

It could be another selling point over Internet Explorer.

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

The equivalent Seamonkey bug is bug 24418.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 259557 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[slice1900]

In bug #24418 for Mozilla there is a lot of discussing about disabling audio for
various types of media or plugins.  While that'd be nice to have, what would be
really cool right now is to just have that little speaker icon we are all used
to down in the status bar that we can click on to mute or unmute, which controls
all sounds coming out of the browser and its plugins (if it is hard to do for
them all, doing them for a subset and fixing the others later is better than
nothing)

Is this something that's fairly easy or is it hairy?  If some object to having
more stuff in the GUI (more icons slowing down the browser) then perhaps a
hidden pref changeable in about:config that enables the speaker icon would
satisfy those of us who hate browsing around and having an ad start blaring
music or stupid talk at us a minute or two after reaching the site....I notice
such annoying ads rarely start with the sound right away because the site owners
know that people would be annoyed and leave the site if it started up immediately!

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You can only disable the whole plugin but not for example only the sound in flash.

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

bug 24418 is no longer SeaMonkey-only