How to Mute an Entire Web Site in Chrome

How to Mute an Entire Web Site in Chrome

The Chrome web browser now allows you to mute any website completely. This is great if you often visit a website that frequently has auto-playing videos or auto-play audio that youre constantly having to mute, or find and pause a fairly common situation with many news and sports websites since you can mute the entire site once, and youll then never hear another sound from that website again for as long as the mute is active. Muting websites in Chrome works the same in Mac OS, Windows, and Linux, so this is a cross-platform compatible trick. The only requirement is that you have a recent version of Chrome, so be sure you update the web browser if you do not have this feature available. And yes, this works in conjunction with , which has an added benefit of being able to mute a site even if the site is ignoring the Chrome auto-play setting. Want to completely silence an entire website from playing sound or audio? Thats easy with Chrome: Note this mute feature applies to the entire site, not just the specific webpage that is actively open. For example if you were to mute CNN.com then all future visits to CNN.com, along with any article on CNN.com will be muted by default as well. You can mute any site this way, even if it is not currently playing any sound. If you use a lot of tabs and windows with Chrome, youll probably find it helpful . You can un-mute a site just as easily as muting a site: You can mute and unmute sites quickly this way as appropriate for your particular browsing needs. So if youre browsing at night and want to stay quiet, mute away, but if youre during the day and want to have websites play audio at will, unmute away. Note that this broader Mute Site feature appears to replace the , though you can continue to . Know of any other helpful tips or tricks for silencing sites that play audio? Share them in the comments!