I don't want a PLAY MUTE PAUSE not even a CLOSE button. Especially NOT when they have their own internal state for then they choose to appear and disappear.
I don't want to pay attention to them, I don't want to have to look for them, I don't want them getting in my way any more.
If I want to close a tab, I middle click it ! I already have global mute controls, I don't need an extra volume control, I don't have "tabs making unwanted sounds" problem because I have "Go To Sound Tab" addon installed, so I can easily find any tabs that makes sound and mute it correctly, without a extra, unneeded layer of muting (tab muting, versus app muting versus player muting, that is too many muting options, I don't want to use tab muting personnally so I want these buttons out of here !)
I don't want to have to rely on running violentmonkey script engine on top of my already sluggish browser when I barely have 6615 open tabs.
I want to disable the feature at the root, inside firefox, not patch up webpages like dark reader does.
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh h!!!!!!
You turned what I said on its head. Nobody unskilled is doing this, and the buttons are there exactly because most people want them there and know nothing else. Including me, that knows about the shortcuts, prefer going caveman and click buttons on a screen. You are overestimating the base tech literacy of most humans, as most people have absolutely zero idea how to reach the settings page.
Try this one instead for the X button, before the audio button rule:
Looks at OP
Can me and my fat fingers catch a break ?
Well, I'm accidentally closing and muting tabs all the time !
You're saying "everyone wants this" who wants to have no idea why the sound isn't playing for half an hour ?
I think it's reasonable that such sharp edges should be dealt with.
But everywhere on the internet where someone complains about this is told "just do some registry hack wizardry" and it never gets solved !
Chrome has even more tech illiterate users and has the same feature and mute button, yet not as many users complain about accidentally muting tabs. I especially "love" the Reddit Firefox community that is in a constant biblical meltdown and always claims super small things will make everyone move to Chrome when it does the exact same thing too.
And especially because you know how to use that feature it takes one second to unmute it. I really think you are exaggerating.
Closing tabs is indeed more annoying, but you can reach it again using Recently Closed Tabs. Or Ctrl+Shift+T to restore the tab you just closed. If the page has unsaved content you even get asked before leaving.
I am not exaggerating, this REALLY is ducking pissing me off.
It should not be this hard to remove this usability nightmare.
Sure, whatever, some people want them, I'm not trying to take away your first amendment rights to tab buttons but I don't want them and there are at least 5 other people who REALLY don't want them.
And we will get together and make five more firefox forks if we have to ! This is ridiculous !