How do I enable the mute button to always show in addition to the "playing" label. When I open a lot of tabs the "playing" label isn't visible anymore, therefore it's hard to identify the active playing tab.
vs with mouse hovering over the tab
Always show mute button in playing tab ?
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Re: Always show mute button in playing tab ?
You have a few choices:
(1) Don't allow tabs to get so small, so you can still read the text. You can set browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to a higher value in about:config. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/about-co ... or-firefox
(2) Switch to Compact Mode density, and the speaker icon will replace the site icon on tabs playing audio. https://www.userchrome.org/firefox-89-s ... ompactmode
(3) Use custom CSS to hack your tabs bar, through a userChrome.css file. If you are not familiar, I have general info on my site and a tool to generate tab styling code:
(5) There are add-ons that list all of the tabs playing audio if you need something that works across all open windows. For example: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sound-control/ (there seems to be a bug with using it to switch tabs between windows, unfortunately, so I filed an issue)
(1) Don't allow tabs to get so small, so you can still read the text. You can set browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to a higher value in about:config. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/about-co ... or-firefox
(2) Switch to Compact Mode density, and the speaker icon will replace the site icon on tabs playing audio. https://www.userchrome.org/firefox-89-s ... ompactmode
(3) Use custom CSS to hack your tabs bar, through a userChrome.css file. If you are not familiar, I have general info on my site and a tool to generate tab styling code:
- https://www.userchrome.org/how-create-u ... e-css.html
- https://www.userchrome.org/firefox-89-s ... #tabstyler
(5) There are add-ons that list all of the tabs playing audio if you need something that works across all open windows. For example: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sound-control/ (there seems to be a bug with using it to switch tabs between windows, unfortunately, so I filed an issue)
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Re: Always show mute button in playing tab ?
Thank you very much !
Compact Mode density works fine for now. used this way to enable it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/co ... nd-firefox
Is the font actually smaller in compact mode or does it only appear that way ?
I will check out the custom CSS hack if i have more time or Mozilla removes the compact density mode.
Again thanks.
Compact Mode density works fine for now. used this way to enable it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/co ... nd-firefox
Is the font actually smaller in compact mode or does it only appear that way ?
I will check out the custom CSS hack if i have more time or Mozilla removes the compact density mode.
Again thanks.
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Re: Always show mute button in playing tab ?
I don't think the font is smaller in Compact, at least judging from screenshots.