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We haven’t found an easy way to determine which tab the sound is coming from, but the reason anyone wants to know that is usually to shut off the sound from that tab. Maybe the Firefox add-on “Stop Autoplay” will work for you: this add-on prevents audio from automatically playing when you enter a website.

>>Update: Stop Autoplay won’t work with Firefox 6. We’ll keep you updated.

The way you would use this is to install this Firefox add-on, enable its settings in preferences, then close Firefox while saving all the tabs and then re-opening Firefox. (In Firefox 4, click on “restore session.”) All tabs should be silent now. Hurray!

According to Stop Autoplay add-on info, it works on Flash and Silverlight music, video, media and movie files including mp3, wma, wav, mid, flv and other files. You can also define a whitelist and disable the add-on for individual tabs.

>> We thought we’d found a way to stop the sound in Firefox…

We’d love to post a free resource here that helps you find out which tab a sound is coming from, but unfortunately we don’t have a resource for this dilemma yet! Do you? Let’s say you got a few dozen tabs open in your browser and you notice that there is some music playing. You close all the other programs, but you need your browser open to work with it, including all the tabs.

You’re trying to listen to a web seminar and you just can’t find the source of the other sound – what do you do? You’ve already checked the tabs and there are no YouTube, MySpace or other video and music sites open.

If you have a free solution (or very inexpensive one) for Mac and PC, please post in the comments!

To find out all you have to do is go to HTML5 Test and you’ll get a score up to 300 to see how well your browser supports HTML5. Your browser will be rated on specifications like user interaction, like drag and drop, storage handling and geolocation. Apart from the main HTML5 specification and others created by the W3C HTML Working Group, this test also awards points for supporting related drafts and specifications.

If you have large documents on your site (incl. books), and you don’t want to make them available as a separate download, you could have them displayed in a browser instead. FlexPaper is an open source web based document viewer that uses Flash. It is delivered both as a stand alone flash application and as a Flex (SWC) library, so it can be integrated it into your application in different ways. Examples and use of FlexPaper.

Download all links and images on a webpage at the same time with DownThemAll, a Firefox extension. You can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want. It features an advanced accelerator that increases download speed up to 400%. You can also pause and resume downloads at any time.

Google recently announced the importance of load speed when it comes to ranking websites. Measure how fast your site loads with Yahoo!’s YSlow Firefox add-on. Not only does it measure the tim eit takes for your site to load, it will also offer suggestions on how to optimize your site for faster loading speeds.

Does your screen capture program only capture selected parts of the page, have too many features to be practical, or is it too slow? Pearl Crescent Page Saver is an extension for Firefox that lets you capture images of web pages, including Flash content. The great thing about this add-on is that you can choose to capture the whole page, the visible portion only, a frame, or a selection of a window with just one click. It works in PNG or JPG and you can scale captured images to any desired percentage.

One of the best add-ons for web developers is Firebug. Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

Checking links one by one for the nofollow attribute is tedious. NoDoFollow (by Zachary Fox)shows which links on a page have the nofollow attribute and which are regular follow links.