What is Clever Mute?
Clever Mute is a tab manager extension for chrome. it's a free extension and is featured in Productivity, it has 1,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 3.91 from 32 rated user, last update is 850 days ago.
What’s new in version 0.5.1?
If you like this extension and want to help the developer, please consider making a donation:
https://www.paypal.me/clevermute
When this extension is installed, every new website that is loaded by the browser will be muted by default unless it's found on the extension's whitelist.
Several features allow you to control which sites sound and which don't:
- You can mute or unmute any site just by clicking the extension icon, just like it's normally done with the tab speaker icon.
- When a website starts trying to play sounds you'll be notified by this extension. Then you can unmute it for the current browser session or add it to the white list. If you ignore the notification or close it, the website will be automatically added to black list.
- A website that is whitelisted will be unmuted by default and you won't receive any notification.
- KILLER FEATURE: This extension is only triggered when a tab tries to play audio. This improves the extension efficiency and avoids having unnecessary muted speaker icons on tabs that do not sound, giving a cleaner appearance to the browser tabs.
- The extension icon gives you information about the current website white or black list status: If the speaker icon is white, the url is whitelisted. If the speaker icon is strikethrough and contains a black dot, the url is blacklisted.
Simple, effective and powerful
Source code (If you want to contribute):
https://github.com/edertone/CleverMute
How to install Clever Mute?
You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.
Preview of Clever Mute
Technical Features:
- Latest Version: 0.5.1
- Requirements: Windows Chrome, Mac Chrome
- License: Free
- Latest update: Thursday, December 30th, 2021
- Author: Edertone Software Engineering
Clever Mute Available languages:
English (United States).
FAQ
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What about others talk about clever mute chrome extension?
44% user give 5-star rating, 19% user give 4-star rating, 13% user give 2-star rating, 25% user give 1-star rating. Read reviews of clever mute
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How could i get help if there is something wrong with clever mute chrome extension?
You could find more help information from clever mute support page.
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How could i contact the developer of clever mute chrome extension?
You could send emails to publisher, or check publisher's website.
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What are the required permissions for extensions?
- storage
- notifications
- tabs
- activeTab
More about manifest_file of clever mute.
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How could i report abuse of clever mute chrome extension?
You could click to report abuse of clever mute.
Reviews of clever mute:
Does the opposite of what I was looking for but still works for what I needed, Yes there is a some sec of audio when a new tab is opened but that's no big deal. so far works well
was clever now not working as was
Installed this extension into Chrome v78.0. The toolbar icon color is poorly chosen for use when a dark theme is used in the web browser. The author should provide 2 icon themes: one for light theme in Chrome, and another for the dark theme in Chrome. This extension is supposed to popup an alert for when it detects a site wants to play sound. I never get that popup. When I go to chrome:extensions, click on Details for this extension, there is no link to Options, so no way for me to manually edit the white- and blacklists (and especially the blacklist due to poor GUI design of this extensions dialog). Alt-clicking on this extension's toolbar icon shows Options in the context menu, but Options is disabled (grayed out), so it has no user-configurable options. That means I can never add a site to a whitelist. I could never delete an accidentally blacklisted site (due to poor GUI design). And no means of editing those lists, either. This extension has not been updated in over an year. Back then Chrome was at version 69. Now it's up to version 78 (released). Perhaps Google changed something in one of those later 9 version of Chrome that disables the white/blacklisting options and popup alert functions in this extension, or the author removed that functionality but did not update the description his extension. Since there is no web site for this extension, there's no place for the author to list a release notes history on his versions. I tried restarting Chrome and disabled any other extensions dealing with tabs, sounds, or autoplay. Still no popup alert from this extension when visiting Youtube and selecting a video to play, so no choices regarding audio in the current tab session, to whitelist, or to blacklist (on closing its dialog). I was using Youtube to test, and maybe this extension won't work with that site. However, that does not explain the absence of Options (to show and edit white- and blacklists) when I look at the details of this extension and Options being disabled when right-clicking on its toolbar icon. I also noticed the muting is delayed. When I open a tab that plays audio, the audio starts playing and then this extension mutes the tab in about a second. Apparently it doesn't inspect the document on load to check for audio or video tags in the HTML code, and instead it waits until it detects sound actually playing. I hear a blurp of audio at 100% which can be quite loud for some videos, and why I wanted an auto-muter extension. Committing an action on closing or ignoring a dialog box is very improper GUI design. In this extension, it supposedly automatically blacklists a site if you close its dialog. The "X" close button should only perform THAT function: close the dialog. No action (whitelisting, blacklisting, Windows shutdown, exploding your computer, or whatever) should be performed on closing the dialog. That's behavior employed by scam, rogueware, and ransomware dialogs. If I want a site whitelisted, that should require a choice by me (which is the current case). If I want a site blacklisted, that should also a require a choice BY ME, and an overt choice to blacklist, not a covert function of closing the dialog. Uninstalled this extension. Will have to trial other choices.