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Ugh, I thought I had tabs muted by default in my browser... Clearly I was mistaken. Turns out I need an extension for it. But now I have ugly mute symbols on every single tab which isn't "default" at all. What I want is sound symbols on tabs that I have expressly un-muted.

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With Chromium based browsers you should be able to set every website to be muted at first. You'll only see a mute symbol on the tab when the tab tries to play sound.

If there is no sound at all, there shouldn't be an icon.

That does sound like what I want. This is the first time I've heard of a compelling reason to use Chromium over Firefox. Hope I can find a decent solution for Firefox.

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