Silence the tab — not your whole browser. Mute autoplay ads, background YouTube, and chatty tabs in one click while your music keeps playing. Audio Tuner gives every browser tab its own mute button.
Chrome's built-in mute is all-or-nothing. A per-tab mute button gives you silence exactly where you want it.
Muting a tab silences all audio coming from that single browser tab — instantly, and without pausing the video or stream that is playing. The tab keeps running in the background, your position in a YouTube video is preserved, and every other tab keeps its audio as it was.
Chrome does ship a basic mute option on the tab context menu, but it is hidden, fiddly on a trackpad, and gets reset whenever a site re-grabs audio. Audio Tuner exposes a dedicated mute button per tab inside a small popup mixer. One click on the speaker icon and that tab is silent — including WebRTC streams like Google Meet, Zoom web, and Teams web.
Because mute is applied through the browser's native tab-mute API, it costs nothing in CPU and works the instant a tab starts making sound. Combine it with the volume booster on other tabs and you have a real audio mixer for your browser.
Common reasons people reach for per-tab mute: silencing the autoplaying news site you opened in a background tab, quieting the ad that is 3× louder than the show you were watching, or hitting mute on a meeting while you take a side call.
The moments one click of silence beats reaching for the system volume.
Mute the banner or pre-roll ad that started blasting the moment you opened a tab — without leaving the page.
Keep a YouTube tab open for later, muted, while you listen to something else in another tab.
Silence a tab that keeps firing sound effects for notifications, DMs, or pop-ups.
Mute a news site or blog with a looping background video so you can actually read the article.
Quickly mute a Google Meet, Zoom, or Teams web tab while you take a side call — no host permission needed.
Click through noisy auto-playing media on dozens of tabs and mute each in one click as you go.
No accounts, no configuration files, no permissions gymnastics. Install and mute.
Add Audio Tuner from the Chrome Web Store. It also works in Edge and Brave — any Chromium browser.
Click the puzzle piece in your toolbar and pin Audio Tuner so it is one click away whenever a tab gets noisy.
Open the popup, find the offending tab, and click its speaker icon. That tab is silent instantly; everything else is untouched.
Everything you might want to know before you install.
Install Audio Tuner and get volume, mic, and webcam controls on every tab — without digging through settings. Free, private, ready in seconds.
