Silencing Firefox?

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2005-02-13 03:21pm

Is there anyway to silence FireFox so that it will not play music or other sounds on websites with background noices?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-02-13 03:43pm

this problem has nothing to do with the browser. it's a general system configuration for internet browsing. assuming you're using windows XP, go under control panel, internet properties, advanced. there will be a checkbox that says play sounds in web pages. uncheck it.

CDS · Post by **CDS** » 2005-02-13 03:43pm

Darth_Zod wrote:assuming you're using windows XP, go under control panel, internet properties, advanced. there will be a checkbox that says play sounds in web pages. uncheck it.

Wouldn't that only mute sounds in IE?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-02-13 03:44pm

CDS wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:assuming you're using windows XP, go under control panel, internet properties, advanced. there will be a checkbox that says play sounds in web pages. uncheck it.
Wouldn't that only mute sounds in IE?

internet options should be global for all browsers.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2005-02-13 03:52pm

Darth_Zod wrote:this problem has nothing to do with the browser. it's a general system configuration for internet browsing. assuming you're using windows XP, go under control panel, internet properties, advanced. there will be a checkbox that says play sounds in web pages. uncheck it.

Tried that already, doesn't work.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2005-02-13 05:20pm

Darth_Zod wrote:
CDS wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:assuming you're using windows XP, go under control panel, internet properties, advanced. there will be a checkbox that says play sounds in web pages. uncheck it.
Wouldn't that only mute sounds in IE?
internet options should be global for all browsers.

No, that's for IE only.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-02-13 05:23pm

Beowulf wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:
CDS wrote: Wouldn't that only mute sounds in IE?
internet options should be global for all browsers.
No, that's for IE only.

ah. my bad. nevermind then.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2005-09-30 03:11pm

BUMB!

Sorry for the necromancy, but I really really need to find a way to silence Firefox. Any help would be appreciated.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-09-30 03:15pm

Get opera, it has the option you are looking for.

OMG WHAT A NECRO!

felineki · Post by **felineki** » 2005-09-30 03:21pm

Faram wrote:OMG WHAT A NECRO!

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2005-09-30 03:36pm

A quick search yielded this. In summary: you can use the Adblock extension to selectively filter audio files via extension and via targeting the use of "embed" tags needed for them to play in the background.

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2005-10-01 12:31pm

And another search yielded this.

Basically, AdBlock will prevent you from downloading any such files, and you probably don't want that, so this is what you can do instead.

Some dude wrote: /* block embedded sounds */
embed[src*=".mid"] { display: none !important }
embed[src*=".mp2"] { display: none !important }
embed[src*=".mp3"] { display: none !important }
embed[src*=".mp4"] { display: none !important }
embed[src*=".wav"] { display: none !important }
embed[src*=".wma"] { display: none !important }

(on windows, you can find that here: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxx.default\chrome\userContent.css)
(you have to create that file, it won't be there if you haven't already)

Edit: I see that tip was also in Datana's link.