{"id":29975,"date":"2018-07-02T16:15:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T16:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=410445"},"modified":"2018-07-02T16:15:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T16:15:45","slug":"windows-10-tip-yikes-stop-that-sound-mute-a-tab-in-microsoft-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/02\/windows-10-tip-yikes-stop-that-sound-mute-a-tab-in-microsoft-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 Tip: Yikes, stop that sound! Mute-a-tab in Microsoft Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does this sound familiar? You\u2019ve got multiple tabs open in your browser and all of a sudden, music or voices blares from one of them. You scramble to find the audio icon on that tab, open the page and scroll down to stop the video that\u2019s playing.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a faster way to shut down that sound.<\/p>\n<p>A new feature with the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2018\/04\/30\/whats-new-in-the-windows-10-april-2018-update\/\"><strong>Windows 10 April 2018 Update<\/strong><\/a> can mute tabs in Microsoft Edge.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how to do it:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_166047\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/windows-10-tip-yikes-stop-that-sound-mute-a-tab-in-microsoft-edge.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/windows-10-tip-yikes-stop-that-sound-mute-a-tab-in-microsoft-edge.gif\" alt=\"Cursor moves to a tab playing music, clicking on it to mute\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">To mute a tab in Microsoft Edge, click the audio icon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Simply click the audio icon or right-click the tab to choose Mute from the drop down menu.<\/p>\n<p>If you like this, check out <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/tag\/windows-10-tips\/#Pb0VJIHG5gUvmKUY.97\">more Windows 10 Tips<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does this sound familiar? You\u2019ve got multiple tabs open in your browser and all of a sudden, music or voices blares from one of them. You scramble to find the audio icon on that tab, open the page and scroll down to stop the video that\u2019s playing. There\u2019s a faster way to shut down that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50,193],"class_list":["post-29975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-recent-news","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}