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> Never again will you have to hunt through your tabs to pause your music

Not exactly the same thing, but in Chrome, you can enable "Tab audio muting UI control" in chrome://flags which allows you to click the speaker icon on tabs that play music to mute it. Click again to unmute. Very handy for when you get a phone call!

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FWIW there is a standard in the works (Media Session [1]) that will enable various use cases[2] for web app users to control with media keys, headphone buttons, from lock screen, notification area, ducking for phone calls etc

1. https://mediasession.spec.whatwg.org/

2. https://github.com/whatwg/mediasession#use-cases

Firefox has the same thing, enabled by default.

The lack of this by default is something that has annoyed me whenever I have been forced to use chrome.

To didn't enable a setting in Chrome, yet this still works for me, and has for a while.

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