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[Martín Soto <donsoto@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Think of all those flashy annoying myspace pages that play music and don't
> provide any controls. Do you honestly believe that all the video and audio
> players out there embedded into web pages have volume controls?
>
> And what about all those Facebook games out there that have annoying
> background
> music that cannot be muted? I think Firefox is a great candidate to have a
> sound
> control of its own in the sound indicator, similar to the way it's
> currently
> done in Sound Preferences.
>
> There is a further thread somewhere down the line about how annoying it is
> to
> have to switch to the appropriate application and turn off sound for a
> call. Now
> imagine how much more annoying it would be to look through ~30 different
> tabs to
> figure out which webpage is making sound and disable it.
>

This sounds perfect for a new Firefox extension.

Martín