Suggestions for Browsers

[Richio]

How cool would it be if you could enable it so that you could just hover over a tab and then it would reveal a small pause button which would stop the playing media on the tab stop? Kinda like iPad/iPhone how you can go on an app and have music running but be able to pause it outside of the app.

This would also help when a random sound starts playing to find which tab is making the noise.

I can easily see this integrated on all browsers! Why not?

Please shoot me down or agree with me?

[Lingwo]

it can't really be that easily implemented. You have many different ways to play sounds from your browser, plus many different players in various languages now (HTML5, Flash).

I think a mute button would be an idea though. Windows 7 kind of does that already just not on a per tab basis.

[Richio]

Hmm but if they get like 3 coders on it for like a week, surely it can be done? Google has the money?

Or is it just too difficult? I mean iPads can do it? Maybe I'm just ignorant to how things really work but yeah...

[Phouchg]

Please shoot me down or agree with me?

Wait... that kind of made sense. I think...

But iPads and alike don't run Flash. And with it many different, sometimes proprietary video and audio players. Per-tab Mute button? Good idea. Play/Pause? Not a chance.

[Lingwo]

Hmm but if they get like 3 coders on it for like a week, surely it can be done? Google has the money?

Or is it just too difficult? I mean iPads can do it? Maybe I'm just ignorant to how things really work but yeah...

Yes then a new player would come out and then it would need updating. I don't think it is worth the hassle for companies because while it might seem like a good idea to you, i don't think it is a hugely requested feature.

[Richio]

I don't know... Google Chrome has an update like every 2 weeks it seems so it wouldn't be that much hassle for users.

As for the Browser companies, I dunno. Maybe too much but I would still be interested in a mute button, that's almost as good.