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Stop Firefox from playing any notification audio in active or inactive tabs

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Rey Kenobi
Rey Kenobi
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It seems there has been a surge (at least in my country) of professional websites (like financial solutions) having chat/help scripts on their webpages that ding a loud volume audible notification whenever you access the webpage. I am able to disable this on some by using an adblocker, but not all. Plus, it is a reactive solution.

Is there a way to mute the audible ding on such websites proactively, as in the audio is by default muted, even in active tabs, unless I unmute it. Sites like Youtube are fine, because you only access them if you want to listen/view a video, but these chat scripts are getting on my nerves with their audible dings.

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Example: https://www.stfc.in/deposits.aspx

It seems there has been a surge (at least in my country) of professional websites (like financial solutions) having chat/help scripts on their webpages that ding a loud volume audible notification whenever you access the webpage. I am able to disable this on some by using an adblocker, but not all. Plus, it is a reactive solution. Is there a way to mute the audible ding on such websites proactively, as in the audio is by default muted, even in active tabs, unless I unmute it. Sites like Youtube are fine, because you only access them if you want to listen/view a video, but these chat scripts are getting on my nerves with their audible dings. Help! Example: https://www.stfc.in/deposits.aspx

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Thanks, I did a search before asking but i search using google and it didnt lead me to add-ons that solved my issue.

I ended up using Mute Sites By Default.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mute-sites-by-default/?src=search

Its simple, and automatically adds unmuted sites to the whitelist. Works great (except for showing a muted audio icon on every tab :( )

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Shadow110
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Hi, you could give this a try :

seems to be a bunch more when search so you will have to go through this to see what fits your style and usage :

Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.

Rey Kenobi
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Thanks, I did a search before asking but i search using google and it didnt lead me to add-ons that solved my issue.

I ended up using Mute Sites By Default.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mute-sites-by-default/?src=search

Its simple, and automatically adds unmuted sites to the whitelist. Works great (except for showing a muted audio icon on every tab :( )