A web viewer tab can keep playing audio after you switch away from it. When an autoplay clip or a hidden ad starts making noise in a background tab, you can silence it without leaving your current note.

The tab header shows a speaker icon when audio is playing and a muted-speaker icon when it's off, so the noisy tab is easy to find. To mute it, right-click its header from wherever you are in the workspace — you don't need to switch to the tab first.

Mute just the active player

Right-click the web viewer tab header and pick:

MuteMute active player

This silences the current player only. Anything else playing in the tab keeps going.

Mute the whole browser tab

If audio is coming from somewhere other than the main player, like a hidden iframe ad or an autoplay clip elsewhere on the page, mute everything in the tab:

MuteMute entire browser tab

Every audio source in the tab goes quiet.

Bring the audio back

Right-click the tab header again and pick Unmute. The same item works whether you muted the active player or the whole tab.

If you open the menu before a player has loaded, you'll see a single Mute this browser tab toggle that controls the whole tab.

Mute a Web Viewer Tab

Mute just the active player

Mute the whole browser tab

Bring the audio back

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