How do I turn off the click sound when closing a tab in chrome?

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Every time I close a tab in Chrome, it makes a click sound. How do I turn off that sound?

I reported that issue back in Oct 2010. The problem doesn't appear on all clients and the reason is still unclear.

Common attempts at solving the issue include simply turning off the sound in Windows. But I would prefer to solve the problem at the source.

Why is Chrome even triggering that sound to be played? And why is it delayed? The problem would be far less annoying if the sound could easily be related to the action taken.

Google chrome doesn't make sounds when closing tabs (or anything else) as far as i know. Do you run any extensions that might be doing this? Else you can check the sound settings of your Operating System.
Only adblock is installed. This didn't happen until recently. I don't know whether its chorme or the OS, but a clicking sound appears when a tab is closed nontheless.
Does this happen when you close a tab using the keyboard (Ctrl-W) and/or the mouse?
I think this has to do with the current process model setup in chrome. Try changing
I get a sound, too. It does not occur with CTRL+W, but does if I use the mouse. It also plays when I hit buttons on the menu bar. There's no mention of this in the settings/preferences... so I'm muting my whole audio system to solve it. I'm on Ubuntu 10.04. Help!

RyanTM · Answer 1 · 2011-09-26 16:41:59Z

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Go to Control Panel.
Open Sounds. (In Windows 7 It's called Sounds not Sounds and Audio Devices)
In Sounds tab on Windows Explorer section, select Start Navigation
On Sounds section, select (None) on the drop down menu.
Apply then OK

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Related question Windows 7 'click' sound

edited Sep 26 '11 at 16:41

answered Mar 31 '11 at 17:29

RyanTM
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Here is the link to the original post on the Chrome forums. – Sharken Jun 9 '11 at 20:44

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What if he wants the clicking in other programs? This doesn't fix Chrome, specifically. – ekaj Apr 24 at 22:11

Any ideas how to do the same thing in KDE? – David Doria May 12 at 0:51

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Oliver Salzburg · Answer 2 · 2012-04-26 22:08:50Z

For completeness sake, it should be noted that (at least in mine and someone elses case), rebooting the computer fixes the issue.

I rarely reboot, so the problem doesn't fix itself for me.
Also, this is a temporary fix for the issue. Something triggers it to reappear some time in the future, I just can't figure out what it is.

See this discussion & this forum help may be they work for you.

slhck · Answer 3 · 2012-05-14 21:24:45Z

This happened to me too while I was trying to install iTunes via Wine. Sounds when opening and closing tabs but it disappeared when I removed iTunes.

So my guess is that it has something to do with using iTunes or another media player in Windows.

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