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Kinda like the Volume Mixer in Windows, except in a browser.

    There's currently a volume icon that, upon clicking, mutes audio from Orion. Having a single-click mute is quite convenient - I wonder how you would do level change? Perhaps right clicking the icon to get level change options?

      gp A dedicated icon would be nice that opens it in a specific window or panel or something and where you could slide some sliders around to change the volume of each individual tab.

      Something like this would be nice.

          This is pretty advanced - what is the use case for this?

            Vlad Lowering volumes of tabs that don't have sound control, like virtual meetings. It'd be nice to lower their volumes so you could hear it for any activity and not completely mute it.

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                Noxlite Does any browser or extension do this to your knowledge?

                    Vlad Nope, which would make Orion pretty unique too.

                    They can technically have the functionality though through extensions in other browsers, but I don't really trust some random extension.

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                        Noxlite Can you link/show screenshots from such extensions to get a sense what the UI should look like?

                            Vlad Here's one:

                            Though I feel it looks a bit weird and is just pretty weird to use. I wouldn't suggest designing the UI like that.

                            Instead, I'm just gonna make a rough concept thing of it that's based off the Volume Mixer on Windows.

                            (may have made some things a bit too big, i did this 3 in the morning)

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                                Vlad A button or something to bring up the window.

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                                    Vlad Anywhere in the toolbar, it could be customizable.

                                        gp could a simple press-hold on that same volume icon be sufficient to bring up a volume slider?

                                        This could be a pretty straightforward way to add a “power-user” feature without over complicating thing… dare I say, like the Windows examples given.

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                                            transeunt Yes but I am concerned 99% would not find it including the OP if it was already implemented in this way

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                                                Vlad Fair point of course — one could argue there is a pretty strong convention for this sort of "power feature" on macOS without super overt signifiers, but agree it may not always to particularly discoverable.

                                                In theory a combination control could work, i.e. SF Symbol "speaker.1-3" for volume level, which you can mute via direct click, then a "down chevron" indicating a click-to-open-menu interaction to instead modify volume. IMHO that could work well giving more control than other browsers.

                                                …BUT over all, the simpler implementation is simply to allow muting only, and just let users modify their Mac's volume instead of the app — of course that's basically saying "no deal" to the original feature request. 🤷🏻‍♂️

                                                    Actually, the QuickTime Player UI already provides a good convention to follow, to 'easily' support both muting and volume control will full discoverability — auto-popup-volume control triggered by hovering the volume icon, while also allowing immediate toggle-by-click:

                                                    Could this be a viable way to support both, useful functions?

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