Option to disable the audio icon on tabs

[sten003]

Hello Mozilla team.
Since I'm using vertical tabs, there is problem with switching cards. The mute button is right on the icon so I often end up muting a tab instead of switching to it (for example YouTube). It would be great to have an option to disable the audio indicator completely for those of us who don’t really need it. I can mute it with right mouse click and mute.

Thanks for considering it

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[Jon]

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[Warpcore]

Agree, that mute icon is so annoy.  I mis-click on it so often...

[ttt7]

I strongly support having this option. Ever since the icon changed to move further right, not only does it distractingly move all tabs to its right when spawning and despawning (movement catches the corner of my eye non-stop), but also, it plops itself in the exact spot I instinctually click to switch to a tab, especially a new tab I just opened. I accidentally click the audio thing instead of moving to the tab, as I intended, probably at least 10 times per day. On the flip side, I have literally never once in my life intentionally clicked it. I don't need to mute tabs -- if a tab is playing something annoying, I'll just close it. If I really needed to mute it, I'd right click the tab and do it from there.

Quite frankly, this functionality is way too niche to be forcing all users to permanently dedicate first-tier "instantly activate with a single click" UI real estate to it. Even in an alternate universe where doing that made sense, overlapping it with a button that's constantly used for a more important task (switching tabs) would still be bad UX. Being able to see what tab is producing sound is theoretically useful, I guess, but I don't mind doing away with it to get rid of the other annoyances, if removing it entirely is easier than providing an alternative option without the interactivity that also doesn't move all tabs constantly as sounds start and stop playing.

[zenfon]

Mute function on tabs is the biggest mistake that exists in this browser