500065 - control the background sound in pages that don't have a sound control

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 24418

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Ahmed Harthi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090623 Minefield/3.6a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090623 Minefield/3.6a1pre

Some times I open web pages containing a noisy background music, and that is annoying especially when I'm listening to music coming out from another web page.

My idea is if there is any web page with a background sound a small muting icon appears besides the close button in the tab.

I made this screen-shot to make my idea easier to predict:
http://ahmed.byethost10.com/images/MineField.jpg

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

This can mostly be achieved with bookmarklets like these: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html
and I would be very surprised if there were no extensions with this function.

Comment 2

[Ahmed Harthi]

unfortunately there is no extension for this.. and I think this bug should not be marked as "duplicate" because it is specific for the background sound only and it has the idea of the muting button.