Trying to locate the audio source when you have dozens of tabs open can be a real pain, that’s why most major browsers show a small icon with tabs when audio is playing in any one of them. Chrome got this feature last year which certainly made life easier for millions of users across the globe who could instantly see at a glance which tab the audio was playing in. However there was no easy way to mute it, you either had to close the tab or switch to it and manually pause the audio. There’s a much easier way to do this in the latest Chrome release.
Chrome 46, the latest version of Google’s popular internet browser, now lets you mute individual tabs. What this means is that instead of simply showing which tab is making all the noise the browser now lets you do something about it just as easily, just right click on the tab where the audio is playing and click on mute. That’s all.
It certainly doesn’t get any easier than this, short of killing the tab altogether, which might not be ideal in many cases because then you’d have to open a new tab and browse to that webpage all over again. The company has been testing this feature for some time now. This is a much better way to go about this and Chrome users will certainly be glad that Google has finally added the ability to do this.
The latest version of Chrome also removes support for “Ok Google” which means that the browser is no longer actively listening for the voice command, and it also does away with the notification center in the browser which wasn’t been used all that much, as Google itself confirmed.
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