I am looking for a firefox extension that will allow me to toggle microphone access, preferrably per tab, for example disabling it while I’m not speaking in a zoom meeting to reduce tracking.
Edit: clarification due to misunderstanding: i want something that lets me toggle actually giving a site mic input without removing permissions
Isn’t this default Firefox behaviour?
Whenever a site wants access to the microphone I get a prompt from Firefox asking for its permission to grant it to the site/tab. Then when I close the tab, the permission goes away.
There is an option to remember my preference in the popup but there’s no chance in hell I check it.
I guess the person is asking for a mute switch. Once the microphone access is granted, the person can’t mute/unmute unless the website provides such an option.
I mean something that lets me toggle actual mic input to sites once they have access, because if you turn it off you need to refresh to turn it back on.
Why not just… get a headset with a mute button? Laptop and phone mics sound like shit to those of us with good audio. There are great inexpensive headphones with awesome mics that will make you sound as if you’re standing right next to them. And they have a physical mute button, to boot. It’s far less obvious (and cheaper) if you get a wired pair or a boom mic, because you just click the physical mute button hanging on a little control pad off the wire below, instead of tapping your ear every time.
It doesn’t help on a laptop, tablet, or phone, but on a desktop just unplug your mic.
Probably not anything at a browser level. It sounds like you want to split your mic into multiple input channels and then selectively activate those channels. There may be audio software for that, but it’s way outside my knowledge.