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Here is my situation. I use Firefox as my principal browser and typically have a gazillion tabs open, as a reminder that the page is something I want to get back to in the future. (OK, not a gazillion, but sometimes in the range of 200 or so!  )
Anyway, as you might imagine, this takes a lot of memory, so when Firefox gets up past 2 GB or so and my system (4 GB) is running low on memory, I simply terminate Firefox and reopen it. The good thing about this is that Firefox (and the add-on SessionManager) opens all those pages back up, but typically only with minimal loading, with the full loading only being done when the tab for that page gets the focus; this of course allows for Firefox to not use so much memory (I guess Scott Meyers would call this "lazy loading".)
So far so good. But sometimes the pages load up enough so that there is an audio stream; there may be a video stream as well, but this only becomes apparent when the tab has the focus. The audio stream however does not require the focus, and streams no matter what the state of the focus is. There seem to be 2 different types of streamers that do this - websites that only do this if it is the principal tab for a browser form, something that can be easily determined as a hover over the Firefox icon in the Windows Start Toolbar (or whatever that toolbar is that Windows 7 puts on one of the 4 sides of the screen) shows a context menu with each Firefox form, listing that principal page (and with YouTube having the play icon in it, making it very easy to locate); and websites that just do it regardless of whether it is the principal tab. Typically these latter websites have some part of the page show a never-ending stream of news stories, or even worse, ads. 
The result is that there is this damn audio stream that I cannot figure out where it is coming from without laboriously going through each tab - something that in and of itself causes the pages to load, thereby introducing the memory size problem! Sure, one solution is to simply turn the volume off, but then I would be captive to not being able to access the sound of other stuff, like music, videos or the internet telephone.
I have figured out that one way to kill this is to simply terminate the Flash thread (which would only be feasible if I were not actually using Flash in a page that I wanted to access at that time.) But as I type there is some page that keeps loading itself about 10 minutes after I even do this termination!
So what I would like is some add-on or app that could tell me that webpage X is currently running Flash; I could then go that page and simply quickly read it and delete it, or perhaps figure out a way to stop whatever stream (usually a video) - or in an extreme case, simply delete it. Surely, someone must have become flustered enough to figure out how to deal with this. Thanks
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Maybe they need to implement the little audio active tell tale icon in the tab like Chrome.
Anyway, back to your problem. See the link below and scroll down to the 2nd section Firefox. It talks about BarTab and it talks about silent start ups.
http://geeknizer.com/identify-browser-tab-with-sound/[^]
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That sure looks like what I am looking for. Thanks!
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Google's your friend...that was only the 2nd link I looked at in the search results. 
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swampwiz wrote: I use Firefox as my principal browser and typically have a gazillion tabs open, as a reminder that the page is something I want to get back to in the future. (OK, not a gazillion, but sometimes in the range of 200 or so! )
Anyway, as you might imagine, this takes a lot of memory, so when Firefox gets up past 2 GB or so and my system (4 GB) is running low on memory, I simply terminate Firefox and reopen it.
I gotta tell ya: I think it might be the process that needs review, here.
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That crossed my mind as well, but didn't want to state the obvious...hence sticking to the 'audio issue'. 
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As another year deeper into your teenage years, do we expect you to be getting even more stroppy, starting to 'experiment', finding girls and alcohol more interesting, skipping school etc. etc. etc.
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Happy Birthday CodeProject! ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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Happy Birthday CodeProject!
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Darn! Did I miss another party?
Congratulations on surviving another year CP!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Dang! Can't wait until CP turns 18. Happy Birthday CP!
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To Bob, and Chris and all the Hamsters,
Wishing you a very happy birthday, and many more to follow.
A great site, and a great bunch of developers: both looking after the site, and providing the content.
Thanks guys!
Whatzat? 15 years?
You'll be painting the site black and sending HTML only in grunts, next!
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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While I was grabbing my ascii art picture from the net, you popped in!
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DaveAuld wrote: grabbing my ascii art picture from the net
And there was I thinking, "Blimey, Dave has more skills than a man with ten arms".
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 not at all. Why re-invent the wheel you know!
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What you doing up at 6am? You can't be still in bed are you and the first thing you do is go on CP!
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Couldn't sleep - I've been awake since 05:00, so I gave up and got up about half past.
I'm trying to be quiet so Herself can sleep till "alarm time" at 07:00, and get some stuff done before I have to spend the rest of the morning (if not the day) with Mr Boring The Worlds Most Dull Person. (He has to collect his caravan from the repairers - I'd blow the stupid thing up, myself but he likes them -
and he's not confident enough to tow it on his own )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Good point.
I mean, you have admitted that you were looking at women on the Internet, which is perfectly nornal behaviour at 6am*, but what unwholesome things could Griff have been up to?
* And at 7am, 8am, 9am .... 5am
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Excuse me......I am at work so have to watch what I'm surfing for or the IT police will be on my case.
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Happy Birthday Indeed! CP has definitely been one of those rare real "life changing" things -- in a very positive way!
Marc
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Happy birthday, Bob, whoever you are... 
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
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