Where has this mysterious change come from in Firefox?
Perhaps this might somehow be related to the closed thread "Nightly 42.0a1 keeps downloading and installing"? I have Firefox 42.0 on my Windows 8.0 Samsung notebook computer. No changed have been made to it as the sole user of my computer, and I have continually had Firefox set to make absolutely NO updates or checks for them by itself automatically. I have been using it daily like this for at least a half a year now. Yet suddenly just a few weeks ago it's started by itself displaying little speakers on the tabs I have--which happen to be pinned--that are currently at the time playing something with audio. After searching on this, I just discovered that this is apparently an effect of using a "Firefox Nightly" edition, which I have never knowingly requested. So I'm just confused, especially with no changes having been authorized ever since I'd downloaded 42.0, as to where this sudden change has come from! I'm not complaining, but it does seem rather weird. Any ideas? Thanks...
Ausgewählte Lösung
See:
New: Indicator added to tabs that play audio with one-click muting
You can set this pref to false on the about:config page to hide this icon.
- browser.tabs.showAudioPlayingIcon = false
The Classic Theme Restorer extension has a checkbox to show or hide this icon.
Classic Theme Restorer: Advanced > [] Audio playing icon on tabs
You only see this icon if the tab is playing sound actively via the HTML5 media player. The icon disappears when you pause or mute the audio on the player.
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I cannot see how to edit my question here to fix some errors in it, so I will instead repost it here:
Perhaps this might somehow be related to the closed thread "Nightly 42.0a1 keeps downloading and installing"? I have Firefox 42.0 on my Windows 8.0 Samsung notebook computer. No updates whatsoever have been made to Firefox, with my being the sole user of my computer, and with my continually having had Firefox set to make absolutely NO updates or even Checks for updates by itself automatically. I have been using it daily like this for at least a half a year now. Yet suddenly, just a few DAYS ago, it has started by itself to display little speakers on any tabs I have--which happen to be pinned ones--where it is currently playing something with audio. And after searching on this, I just discovered that this is apparently an effect of using a "Firefox Nightly" edition, which I am fairly certain that I had never at any point knowingly requested to participate in. Additionally, I've also noticed that the little 'x' for closing each tab has suddenly by itself grown very large when you hover over it as well, which had never happened until just a few days ago as well. And by the way, it doesn't say "Nightly" anywhere in the Firefox 'About' dialog box, which possibly means that it actually isn't the Firefox Nightly edition? Anyway, I am confused about how these changes have suddenly occurred like this for me, especially with no changes having been authorized ever since I'd downloaded 42.0 back several months ago! I'm not at all complaining about these since they do seem rather nice, but it does seem a rather weird mystery. Any ideas and/or does anyone else notice this as having happened? Thanks...
The a1 in 42.0a1 means it is a old random build of when Firefox 42.0 was in development on the Nightly channel. There are four main channels as in Release < Beta (b#) < Aurora (a2) (aka developers edition) < Nightly (a1). Currently 43.0b# is on Beta, 44.0a2 is on Aurora and 45.0a1 is on Nightly.
Where did you download this Firefox 42.0a1 build as Mozilla would not post a Nightly build as a Release.
Nightly and Aurora channel builds are for Testers as they get checkins almost everyday and therefore gets a update each of those days. This mean there can sometimes be issues until it is fixed, finished or reverted.
Firefox 42.0 has been the current Release since November 3rd on www.mozilla.org and www.mozilla.org/firefox/all and will only give update to Release versions and not to any other channels.
Just to be clear, James and everyone, I do NOT have release 42.0a1 and was merely referring to that thread because of it mentioning about it showing a little speaker on the tabs, I believe. No...my edition still says "42.0" as it has from the start. So the mystery remains. Why has this suddenly changed a couple of days ago for me? Where did this change come from that it is suddenly now having the tiny speaker and the much larger tab-closing x's in each tab?
That is a new feature in Firefox 42.
Ausgewählte Lösung
See:
New: Indicator added to tabs that play audio with one-click muting
You can set this pref to false on the about:config page to hide this icon.
- browser.tabs.showAudioPlayingIcon = false
The Classic Theme Restorer extension has a checkbox to show or hide this icon.
Classic Theme Restorer: Advanced > [] Audio playing icon on tabs
You only see this icon if the tab is playing sound actively via the HTML5 media player. The icon disappears when you pause or mute the audio on the player.
Thank you both the-edmeister and cor-el! I take from both of these responses combined that this feature has obviously been there since the very beginning, and that what must have happened is that the audio I've been listening to had suddenly changed from using flash player to HTML5 media player! That would make sense. As for the large 'x' on the tabs, perhaps I had simply been wrong about that having changed with it having been looking like that all along. Anyway, this must be the solution, other than perhaps I may have accidentally flipped the flag in about:config at some point recently, being that my computer has some strange problems that cause me to beat on it occasionally! But thanks...I'll consider this mystery as now SOLVED! :)