Unwanted audio when visiting websites

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Mar 15, 2026490 views

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Sometimes a website will load and immediately start playing audio, whether it be music or just general voice messages. Short of just hitting the mute button on my keyboard, is there a setting in Firefox that will prevent this from happening?

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You could block flash explicitly with FlashBlock. There is also FlashMute a small application that resides in the systray on Windows systems, and will disable or enable sound output globally from Flash movies. An old Mozilla thread reference (cites …

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