Oct 23, 2024

"Play tab" when pinned tab loads.

I have google voice pinned in Firefox. Every time I open Firefox, in Windows 10 or Ubuntu 24.04, the google voice pinned tab has a play icon with hover text "Play tab". The icon goes away when the tab becomes active. It never plays sound unless a call/message comes in, so the icon is apparently meaningless. None of my other 3-4 pinned tabs do this, including gmail and google chat.

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Bluescat

Diamond Product Expert

Bluescat: jazz and blues music lover, and crazy cat lover.

Oct 23, 2024

Hi Dreaming Void: thanks for posting in the volunteer user-to-user Google Voice Community forum.

Would you please take a screenshot of that tab and post it here?

Dreaming Void

Original Poster

Oct 24, 2024

Here it is:

Bluescat

Diamond Product Expert

Bluescat: jazz and blues music lover, and crazy cat lover.

Oct 27, 2024

That's working as expected (harmless). It just means that the page can play audio (send audio streams to your playback device). If you pin a YouTube page, close and reopen your browser and look at the tab, it will also have a play symbol.