Trick I’ve discovered in Vista for muting just Firefox, say if you’re playing a flash game with no mute button on it and you want to hear your iTunes..
1: Click speaker icon
2: Click Mixer
3: Put your junk in that box
Not only is selectively muting apps highly useful, but this is also the place where you can permanently change the relative volume of anything which doesn’t have a volume knob.
Addendum 11/12/09: Now Ubuntu 9.10 has come on board with this capability. Right click the sound icon and enter Sound Preferences (or via System->Preferences->Volume Control). It’s on the Applications tab:
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Comments 1
Thank you very much it was very very helpful to me what a great trick. Got it working on Windows 7 as well.
Posted 30 Apr 2012 at 4:38 pm ¶Post a Comment