Option to make audio icon in tabs non-interactive

[deadmeu]

When a video is playing in a tab, an interactive audio icon displays in the tab which may be clicked to mute the tab. This can be annoying when you have a video playing in other tabs, as it becomes difficult to navigate to those tabs without accidentally clicking the audio icon and muting them instead of opening them.

Please add a setting to resolve this issue. I can think of two possible solutions:

1. Disable the interactivity outright, and only display the icon in the tab as a visual indicator for when the tab is playing audio, or when it is muted.
2. Disable the interactivity only for tabs that are not the current tab. This retains the button aspect of the icon for the currently selected tab, but not for any other tab, allowing you to safely click them to open them.

[Jon]

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[FlyingeagleCN]

I really need this change, as very highly often mistakenly click the open icon and unexpectedly mute it.