Chrome already shows you a speaker icon on the tab with audio playback. This makes it simpler to spot the tabs you may want to mute, close or open to skip a track you dislike. However, Google now wants to make the process even effortless and has added a “media control center” next to the address bar in Chrome 79 on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It collects all the tabs with media playback and displays them in one place.
“Designed to minimize any disruptions to whatever you need to get done in your browser, the new media hub helps you to be more productive by bringing all your media notifications to one place and letting you manage each audio and video playback, without ever having to navigate any tabs.”
