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How do you remove the muted text and icon from the tabs?

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I like to mute all of my tabs so they don't play annoying sounds. However a very annoying mute icon appears when I hover over it and the "muted" text is shown under the name. I tried adding to my userChrome.css:

@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul); .tab-icon-overlay[muted], .tab-icon-sound[muted] {

 display: none !important;

}

This only removes the muted icon, and when I hover over a tab its favicon disappears. I also tried changing browser.tabs.showAudioPlayingIcon as suggested in [answer] but it isn't an option anymore.

How do I remove it completely without changing the context menu item?

I like to mute all of my tabs so they don't play annoying sounds. However a very annoying mute icon appears when I hover over it and the "muted" text is shown under the name. I tried adding to my userChrome.css: @namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul); .tab-icon-overlay[muted], .tab-icon-sound[muted] { display: none !important; } This only removes the muted icon, and when I hover over a tab its favicon disappears. I also tried changing browser.tabs.showAudioPlayingIcon as suggested in [[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1092509#answer-802519|this answer]] but it isn't an option anymore. How do I remove it completely without changing the context menu item?

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See these CSS files for the .tab-icon-overlay and .tab-icon-sound CSS rules.

See also:

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cor-el said

See these CSS files for the .tab-icon-overlay and .tab-icon-sound CSS rules. See also:

Thanks, I've updated my code:

@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul); .tab-icon-overlay[muted], .tab-icon-sound[muted], .tab-secondary-label[muted], .tab-icon-sound-muted-label {

 display: none !important;

}

The only problem now is that the favicon disappears when the tab is hovered.

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I've updated it again:

@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul); .tab-icon-overlay[muted], .tab-icon-sound[muted], .tab-secondary-label[muted], .tab-icon-sound-muted-label {

 display: none !important;

} .tab-content .tab-icon-image {

 opacity: 1.0 !important;

}

It works almost perfectly, but the loading indicator (in place of the favicon when the site is loading) disappears when hovered. Do you know what the class of that is?

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cor-el said

You can try: .tab-throbber[busy]::before {}

Thank you, my final code is this:

@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul); .tab-icon-overlay[muted], .tab-icon-sound[muted], .tab-secondary-label[muted], .tab-icon-sound-muted-label {

 display: none !important;

} .tab-content .tab-icon-image, .tab-throbber[busy] {

 opacity: 1.0 !important;

}

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Note that you can hide the secondary line that shows the Playing and Muted state by modifying the browser.tabs.secondaryTextUnsupportedLocales pref and add your language to the list. For "en-US" this would be "en" (i.e. the part before the '-'):

  • ar,bn,bo,ckb,fa,gu,he,hi,ja,km,kn,ko,lo,mr,my,ne,pa,si,ta,te,th,ur,zh,en

Close and restart Firefox to make the change effective and you should no longer see the playing text in "Density: Normal" mode.

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can click the button to "Accept the Risk and Continue".

Modified by cor-el