Comments on: Allow or Block Autoplay Sound in Edge on the Computer https://browserhow.com/how-to-allow-or-block-autoplay-sound-in-edge-computer/ Web Browser How-to's! Thu, 11 May 2023 11:15:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kushal Azza https://browserhow.com/how-to-allow-or-block-autoplay-sound-in-edge-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-77557 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 04:31:40 +0000 https://browserhow.com/?p=9479#comment-77557 In reply to VanguardLH.

Hello, you can perhaps use the Mute Tab option in the Edge browser. You need to right-click for the context menu on the tab and select ‘Mute Tab’. There is also a keyboard shortcut Control + M for quick action.

Mute Tab option in Edge browser

]]> By: VanguardLH https://browserhow.com/how-to-allow-or-block-autoplay-sound-in-edge-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-77453 Thu, 20 Apr 2023 18:10:42 +0000 https://browserhow.com/?p=9479#comment-77453 Alas, Microsoft has yet to provide an option for “mute tabs by default”. Clicking on a hyperlink to have audio blare at you in a new tab is highly annoying, and providing a tab icon on which to mute is too late. The tab has already starting blaring at you, and then you have to quickly move the mouse cursor atop the tab icon to shut it up.

There is the edge://settings/content/mediaAutoplay setting, but Limited and Allow do not automatically mute tabs by default. You can go to edge://flags/ to enable the “Show block option in autoplay settings”, restart Edge, but choosing Block does not work. For example, search Youtube, and open a hit in a new tab. The video begins playing, and so does the audio. Many Youtube authors must have very poor sound systems since they choose a volume level that is horrendously loud.

For Firefox, I use the “Mute sites by default” add-on. I have not yet found an equivalent add-on for Edge.

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