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All popular web browsers let you control the audio of individual tabs for more customized browsing.

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Screenshot of a Chrome tab with a red arrow pointing at Mute site in the tab menu dropdown.

This will mute all tabs that contain pages from the same website.

Right-tap the tab and select Mute Tab from the dropdown menu.

  1. tap the speaker icon on the tab.

Screenshot of the Tab Muter extension in the Chrome Web Store, with a red arrow pointing at Add to Chrome.

Hit Ctrl + M on your keyboard.

For Opera and Safari, the first two methods listed above work, but not the keyboard shortcut.

Final thoughts

Muting tabs goes a long way in creating a more focused and interruption-free browsing experience.

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