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Chrome allows users to mute tabs, simply by right-clicking them and hitting Mute Tab. What I'm wondering is if there's a way to detect when a user has muted the tab.
To clarify, I'm wondering if there's a way for a website to detect when I've muted their tab.
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To mute a browser tab in Google Chrome, right-click it and select “Mute Site.” This will mute all tabs from the site in the future. To unmute them, right-click one of that site's tabs and click “Unmute SIte.”
To mute a tab, just right-click the tab and select the "Mute" option. Google Chrome only lets you mute entire sites by default — to mute just an individual tab, you'll need an extension.
You can try the new feature in the latest version of Chrome Canary by going to chrome://flags > Tab audio muting UI control > set it to Enabled. Once you enable this feature, Chrome will ask you to reboot. You will be able to see the new mute button after you restart the browser.
Mute Tab is an extension that helps you quickly mute all tabs with just one button (click). The toolbar button serves as an ON|OFF switch, once pressed, the icon will change accordingly (the color and shape).
No, this is not possible in Google Chrome.
Such events can be recorded using low-level APIs expoosed by Chrome but it cannot be done via any of the Web APIs available.
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This is not possible for JavaScript on websites.
But, browser extensions can detect it using the Tabs API.
Learn more: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabs#type-MutedInfo https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/Tabs/MutedInfo
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