How does that solve anything? Half the time we don't know videos are about to play, then suddenly a blast of sound comes out of the page. What we need is a wa

How does that solve anything? Half the time we don't know videos are about to play, then suddenly a blast of sound comes out of the page. What we need is a way to mute the browser by default, with selective un-muting of particular tabs once we decide we want to hear them. An option to remember mute state for a whitelist of sites would be nice too. I'm amazed browser vendors don't offer this. All the fancy features they build, but this one has alluded them. Auto-playing videos are the worst thing about desktop web browsing. I cannot think of a worse problem.