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Mute Tab

by BS Engineering · Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 19 Oct 2026

Mute or unmute the current tab with a single keyboard shortcut. No tracking, no data collection.

Users
87
+43 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#89K
#74K among extensions
Version
1.0.0
updated 18 Aug 2026

Users

monthly, 2 months
04487Aug 2026Oct 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 19 Oct 2026: 87 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

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001Aug 2026Oct 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 19 Oct 2026: 0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Mute Tab

Mute Tab does one thing: it mutes and unmutes the tab you're on, with a single keyboard shortcut. Press Option+S on macOS, or Alt+S on Windows and Linux, and the current tab goes silent. Press it again and the sound comes back. That's the whole extension. PER TAB, NOT PER SITE Muting applies to the one tab you're on — not to the whole website. Two tabs open on the same site are muted independently, and nothing is written to Chrome's site-level sound settings. Mute the noisy tab, leave the other one playing. PICK YOUR OWN SHORTCUT The defaults are Option+S on macOS and Alt+S on Windows and Linux. If that conflicts with something you already use, change it at chrome://extensions/shortcuts. NO DATA COLLECTION No analytics, no telemetry, no servers, no network requests. The extension cannot read your browsing history, your page content, or anything you type. It requests a single Chrome permission, "tabs", because Chrome requires it to change a tab's muted state — and that is the only thing it's used for. NO INTERFACE There's no popup, no toolbar clutter, no settings page. Install it, press the shortcut, done. THE COMPLETE SOURCE CODE This extension is small enough to read in a minute, so here is all of it. There is no build step and no minification — what you install is exactly this. https://github.com/bs-engineering-dev/mute-tab/blob/main/background.js Full source code, issue tracker, and privacy policy: https://github.com/bs-engineering-dev/mute-tab

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days+10+13.0%00.00
30 days+43+97.7%00.00

Version history

1 versions recorded
1.0.018 Aug 2026

Details

Category
Tools
First seen
18 Aug 2026
Size
7 KB
Languages
en-US
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
github.com
Support
github.com
Extension ID
pbfpkfljnabocdbdeionoegmlcifickh

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 3
Permissions
tabs

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