How do I mute certain tabs in Chrome? [duplicate]

Solution 1:

There is an extension for that (sort of): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nmkbaaijgpppbokgnhhoakihofedkgcc

it's okay in that it works most of the time. however chrome still uses a shared instance of flash (for example) in order to run faster, but it makes it very difficult to stop one part of that shared instance. IE (ugh) opens a new instance per tab, and you can mute individual tabs. you can give this a spin, but as far as I know it's as good as you'll get.

Solution 2:

From lifehacker...

Get the Dev Channel (if you're not already on it) and set the following flag:

chrome://flags/#enable-tab-audio-muting

Restart Chrome.