Let's face it: audio and video that automatically plays on a web page is pretty annoying. To help remedy the headache, a new feature in Google Chrome's Dev Channel won't play those items on tabs that you're not looking at. If you click a link for the latest Hunger Games trailer and bounce back to your inbox while it loads, you won't have to struggle to find the mute switch on the preceding ad. The content will still preload (if the developer opts to), but it won't play until that particular tab is in the foreground. That should ease the panic of finding the sound or catching a glimpse of an item you'd really rather not see soon enough -- in Chrome at least. Features in the Dev Channel often find their way into the stable release of the browser (eventually). While there's no guarantee this will make the cut, we're crossing our fingers.

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Chrome’s Windows 8 Chrome OS-lookalike gets a stable release Latest build also makes it easier to track down noisy tabs. by Peter Bright - Jan 14 2014, 8:40pm CST The latest stable version of Chrome—it's up to an astonishing version 32 now—brings with it perhaps one of the most useful features ever to make its way into a browser.I'm sure we've all suffered the infuriating situation where one of our browser's many tabs is making a noise. We then have to hunt through all the tabs in turn to find out which one is the culprit. That can be easy enough if it's a YouTube window, say, but not all noisy tabs are so easily detected, with ads being notorious audio offenders. Chrome now has a trio of icons to help out. If a tab is making a noise, Chrome will put a little speaker in the tab itself. This gives instant, at-a-glance detection of noisy tabs. The other two icons are less important, but still useful. If one tab is accessing your webcam, it'll be adorned with a little red recording icon. A tab that's being cast to your TV with a Chromecast will show a little TV icon. The noisy tab icon. These icons have been a part of Chrome's developer builds for many months, and the speaker icon is really invaluable. It's a simple feature, but an absolutely welcome one. Another feature making its way to the stable build is Chrome's Chrome OS-like Metro mode browser. When set as the default browser on Windows 8 and started up in Metro mode (using the icon on the Start screen or a link in a Metro app, rather than the icon one on the taskbar or a link on the desktop) the browser looks like Google's browser-based operating system. This mode starts a Chrome "desktop." Along the bottom of the screen is a taskbar of sorts, used for launching Web apps of your choosing. Populating the main area of the screen are one or more browser windows. Message 29331900