Tab speaker icon should be click-through (non-interactive) by default

[Vitaliy]

When switching tabs quickly, I often accidentally click the speaker/mute icon instead of the tab itself. This causes one of two annoying outcomes: a paused video on a background tab starts playing unexpectedly (and I miss the beginning), or a tab I'm actively listening to gets muted (and I miss part of the audio).

Please add an option in Firefox settings to make the tab speaker icon non-interactive — acting only as a visual indicator of audio activity, passing click events through to the tab activation/drag behavior underneath. Users who prefer the current behavior (click to mute/unmute) would be able to keep it enabled.

Alternative or complementary approaches that would also solve this:

• Mute/unmute triggers only when clicking the speaker icon while holding Ctrl, leaving plain clicks for tab switching/dragging.
• Move the mute/unmute action to the tab context menu (right-click), where it already partially exists in some Firefox versions, making the icon purely informational.

[Jon]

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[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/option-to-disable-the-audio-icon-on-tabs/idc-p/116399/highlight... a test, userChrome.css

[grundt]

Hmm, I use the feature frequently and appreciate its convience (being able to toggle mute on a tab without switching to that tab).

@Vitaliy have you considered using the keyboard to "switch tabs quickly" ?

There may be other ways of doing it, but this works for me (on Windows):

• ctrl + Tab - next tab(s)
• shift + ctrl + Tab - previous tab(s)

• the browser window needs to be the "active" window

[lesyok]

Great idea, hate when that happens