It’s been over a year now since Google introduced a visual way to track down which tabs are playing audio in Chrome, something that was previously only available using third-party extensions. However, they still didn’t give an easy option for shutting those tabs up without having to stop what you’re doing.

Whether it be an annoying ad, a video that started playing automatically, or even just music that you need momentarily silenced, you have to stop what you’re doing, head to the tab with the speaker icon, then find and stop whatever’s playing the audio. It would be much simpler if the… more