Sound Still Playing After Window Closed
However, the problem is, when the video is playing and I close the pop-up window, the pop-up closes with video plugin but the sound continues playing. I think the video player is just disappearing but not stopping video playback completely. Jun 26, 2011 Flash audio keeps playing after closing tab or window. User Help for Mozilla Firefox. Have your firefox set to ask you if you want to close firefox when you try and close the program. When the audio keeps playing just click 'x' and it will ask you if you are sure you want to close. Confirmed this bug is still present in nightly. How to keep audio output on when screen goes off? It's nothing to do with windows 7 as the audio is still being output if you route it to separate speakers. Now the display seems to be off after 5 minutes but the sound is playing. My System Specs.
Are you sick and tired of opening a new web page and being greeted by a loud, obnoxious advertisement? I sure am. Pop-up and pop-under ads were bad enough, but now it seems like I can hardly go to a site without having a video start up with a blaring voice braying about a great diet, deal, or the like. I'm looking at you, Facebook.
Enough already!
I can live with ads. I make my living from websites with ads. Even ad-blocking software, like the great open-source Ad-Block Plus, allow Acceptable Ads that don't shove their way into my face. But, this new wave of yakety-yak ads is driving me crazy.
Fortunately, Chrome, its relatives, and Firefox enable you to stop the noise. Here's how you do it.
The Chrome extension MuteTab gives you control over audio in all your browser tabs. While Chrome includes the built-in ability control the sound from your tabs, it can still be a pain to track down which tab is being noisy. MuteTab makes it easy to see what tabs are talking and lets you mute all of them or just the tabs in the background. You can also set the extension to mute all tabs, background tabs, or incognito tabs by default. I like this extension a lot.
You can also block some auto-play video and auto in Chrome by using its built-in settings. To do this, take the following steps:
1) Enter 'chrome://chrome/settings/content' into the URL bar.
2) Scroll down to the Flash heading and set it to 'Let me choose when to run plugin content.'
3) Scroll further down to Unsandboxed Plugin Access and set it to: 'Ask when a site wants to use a plugin to access your computer.'
These setting won't stop everything, though, because many sites now use HTML5 instead of Flash for video and audio. HTML5 support is built-in into Chrome. If you want more than MuteTab, use Disable HTML5 Autoplay
Disable HTML5 Autoplay is handy, but it's more complex than MuteTab. You can use the extension to disable all HTML5 audio and video autoplaying. It works by removing the HTML autoplay tag from web pages before. You can adjust how it handles domains by adjusting the program.
Both above extensions should also works with the Opera and Vivaldi web browsers. This works because both are built on top of Chrome's foundation programs: Chromium and Blink.
Firefox makes blocking autoplay audio and video easy.
1) Enter 'about:config' into the URL bar.
2) If you get a warning message about 'This might void your warranty!' continue on.
3) Now, type 'autoplay' into the search box.
4) This will bring up a preference named 'media.autoplay.enabled.' Double-click it so that the preference changes to False.
Download rise of the rajas. Internet Explorer (IE) used to make blocking unwanted audio and video easy. All you had to do was run Tools/Safety from the menubar and switch on ActiveX Filtering. No fuss, no muss. Unfortunately, almost all autoplay displays are now using HTML5, and IE 11 doesn't need ActiveX to run them.
That means, if you're using IE 11 or Edge or Apple Safari, you're out of luck.
There is one radical method that works. Go to a noisy site, then use IE 11 menu bar, and go into Tools/Internet Options/Security. Once there, move to the Restricted site entry and then press the Sites radio button. From here, add the website to the Restricted list. The next time you visit it, you'll find that there's no longer any autoplay content. You'll also be missing some other content, but for most sites, the main images and text will still display.
Ideal? No, but it does work.
Hopefully, web browser developers will get on the same page soon and make it easy to turn off all autoplay audio and video content. The advertisers may love it, but the rest of us hate it.
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Cloud Internet of Things Security Data CentersI'm on a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS computer and I have installed Civilization 5 from Steam. Whenever I click the 'close game' option from inside the game's menu, all the graphics and any icons on the task bar disappear, but I am left with the background sound from my game (birds chirping, water rushing, etc.), though no music ever plays.
I have tried closing the lid of my laptop, and this only gets rid of it if the computer goes on sleep (which takes about 10 minutes), and I don't want to have to do that every time I stop playing. Shutting down also works, but again, I don't want to do this, as I still want to use my computer afterwards.
Any idea how to fix it?
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Not familiar with ubuntu, but I'm sure there's a way to end the process like in task manager on Windows. But this reminds me of a bug in fallout 3 on Windows 7 were the game crashes but cannot be ended even by ending the process, you have to turn if the pc. This was due to the game not bring optimised for that operating system, maybe that is the issue in your case, and if that's true there's not much you can do about it
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