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[Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 03,May,2010 10:22 PM, Martín Soto wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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.

No, my point is that controlling the volume is the desktop environment's job.
Not each individual applications' job. Please don't forget that Firefox isn't
the only browser out there, and that the browser war is almost as religious as
the editor war.

Someone also mentioned somewhere earlier in the thread that this is not limited
to Flash games in a browser alone, but other random games as well. I know of a
friend who plays music from a media player in the background while playing FPS
games.

-- 
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

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