# How to stop sound on webpages? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 30, 2002, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-sound-on-webpages/145667 "2002-12-30T14:10:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-sound-on-webpages/145667/1 "2002-12-30T14:10:30Z")
So I’m visiting a website. And suddenly music/voices/s-fx are blaring out the speakers. WTF? Oh. a stupid ad. Prolly a flash thing too. It’s superimposed over the webpage - and typically the text I was gonna read. Tool\settings\advanced un-check “play sounds on webpages”. But I still get this blaring from websites every so often. Using IE6. Don’t want to change browser. Have tried to find the settings for Flash, if it is Flash, that’s causing this. No luck so far. So what to do? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-sound-on-webpages/145667/2 "2002-12-30T14:16:54Z")
Easiest way, if you don’t mind setting up a proxy, is to get the Proxomitron. It’ll kill just about anything you tell it to. Unfortunately, there’s no good native way to kill Flash that I know of. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-sound-on-webpages/145667/3 "2002-12-30T14:31:19Z")
I believe flash is an activeX and you can disable or get a prompt at IE Tools, security. I get a prompt but yoiu may get tired of getting prompts all the time ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-sound-on-webpages/145667/4 "2002-12-30T14:34:24Z")
What **asterion** said. Proxomitron is the best damned program for enhancing my web-browsing pleasure (by killing pop-ups, java crap, flash, music…all that extraneous crap that’s apparently there to annoy people). It’ll cure what ails ye. 😃 Fenris ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-sound-on-webpages/145667/5 "2002-12-30T14:49:05Z")
Of course, now that I think about it, I think Flash is plug-in based (at least it used to be.) Delete the plug-in and that should kill all Flash. Of course, you then can’t use it when you want it. A word of warning on the Proxomitron. It rewrites web-pages on the fly, and you have to be careful what you select. The only way I can get any flash-based websites to work (death to all who write those!) is to disable it temporarily. Similarly, I’ve had problems with the websites for the Washington Post and the LA Times using this thing, but it could just be I have it configured differently here at home than I do at school, where I don’t have any problems with those websites. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-sound-on-webpages/145667/6 "2002-12-30T14:57:10Z")
I’m not sure this will get rid of sounds in Flash presentations, but have you tried **Tools** , **Internet Options** , the **Advanced** tab, scroll down to the **Multimedia** section, and uncheck **Play sounds in web pages**? ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-sound-on-webpages/145667/7 "2002-12-30T14:59:11Z")
D’oh, reading comprehension fails again. :smack: Yes, you have tried the obvious. Sorry. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-sound-on-webpages/145667/8 "2002-12-30T16:52:04Z")
Actually, the obvious would be to turn the volume down. (-: ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-sound-on-webpages/145667/9 "2002-12-30T17:26:57Z")
1. Begin using full sentences. 2. Turn speaker to “off” position. ~Ferry ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-sound-on-webpages/145667/10 "2002-12-31T10:50:33Z")
1. Will not begin using full sentences. :evil grin: 2. Will not turn speakers off. Am listening to music from nifty mediaplayer, while browsing. I want to keep flash. It’s just that I want controll. I’ll check into the suggestions. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-sound-on-webpages/145667/11 "2002-12-31T16:30:27Z")
1. I am very thankful you took that as a joke. 2. I am very thankful you did not flame. ~Ferry ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-sound-on-webpages/145667/12 "2002-12-31T19:06:34Z")
Can you set the Proxomitron to still allow the voice of Leonard Nimoy through when he’s singing an ode to Bilbo Baggins? ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-sound-on-webpages/145667/13 "2002-12-31T19:19:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Gaspode \* > \*\*1. Will not begin using full sentences. :evil grin: > 2. Will not turn speakers off. Am listening to music from nifty mediaplayer, while browsing. > I want to keep flash. It’s just that I want controll. > > I’ll check into the suggestions. Thanks. \*\* In that case, setting ActiveX to “Prompt” seems like the best thing to do. Evry time you get the choice of whether to let it go or not.