It mutes tabs indiscriminately tabs that are supposed to play sound e.g., YouTube videos are muted as are Facebook videos. If you navigate to a webpage that has a video on it in the current tab, AutoMute will mute it.
The extension gets to work right away muting every single tab you open. Install AutoMute from the Chrome Web Store. If you’d rather automatically mute websites that try to play audio, you can install an extension called AutoMute and it will do the job for you. The point is, users don’t like websites just assuming they can play audio and Chrome has a feature that lets users turn it off. still muting just a tab and not the entire website. You can get the old functionality back i.e. In a subsequent update to the browser, that same feature was revamped so that it essentially blacklisted websites that you muted. Chrome introduced a feature some time ago that let you mute tabs.
