go to next tab playing audio / mute tab commands

[timo]

things i can think of

• go to the next tab that has audio
  • either skip muted tabs, or also go to muted tabs
• mute the current tab / tab by letter / next tab that's playing audio
• if possible, also make tabs that recently played audio targetable (for example if there was a notification sound you're unfamiliar with, and if it's short you can easily miss the time when it still shows the icon)

[david-tejada]

I am going to start working on this. I think everything you mentioned is doable. This is a draft of the commands and what each will do. For the mute/unmute commands I'm unsure if it's better to have two commands or just a command that switches the mute/unmute state. Let me know what you think and if there's something you'd like to be added.

• go playing: Go to the next tab that has audio (muted or not).

• go sound: Go to the next tab that has audio and is not muted.

• go muted: Go to the next muted tab.

• go last sound: Go to the tab that most recently started (it might have already stopped) playing audio.

• mute/unmute current: Mute/unmute the current tab.

• mute/unmute next: Mute/unmute the next tab that's playing audio and is not already muted/unmuted.

• mute/unmute <target>: Mute/unmute a tab by letters.

[david-tejada]

In Firefox is not possible to know if a muted tab has audio because of this bug: 1667585 - WebExtensions API tab type: audible property incorrect when tab is muted

I think go muted should go to the next muted tab that has audio playing. Because of the aforementioned bug this is not possible in Firefox. I think for the time being I will make go muted go to the next muted tab, regardless of if it has audio or not.

On the other hand I will make go playing go to the next tab that has audible set to true. This will make its behavior as intended in Chrome but in Firefox will ignore all tabs that are muted.