How can I mute the browser/tab in selenium using the geckodriver

Question

I'm trying to mute the browser/tab in selenium since headless mode doesnt mute sounds, I've searched but all I could find was chrome solutions and they didn't work, Also I don't want to use a profile

Is this possible on firefox/geckodriver?

Does this answer your question? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39392479/how-to-mute-all-sounds-in-chrome-webdriver-with-selenium — medium-dimensional, May 06 '22 at 06:57
@medium-dimensional Yeah I guess, I can mute the video elements, but it'd be more convenient to have an option that mutes all sounds on firefox — Chad, May 06 '22 at 07:05
May this will help? https://stackoverflow.com/a/53400432/7789963 — medium-dimensional, May 06 '22 at 08:25

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 10 '22 at 17:21

You can call set_preference("media.volume_scale", "0.0") in webdriver.FirefoxProfile() class

Code:

    profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
    profile.set_preference("media.volume_scale", "0.0")

Full code example:

    from selenium import webdriver
    
    
    profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
    profile.set_preference("media.volume_scale", "0.0")
    
    
    driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)
    driver.get("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUVcZfQe-Kw")

For Selenium V4:

from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options

options = Options()
options.set_preference("media.volume_scale", "0.0")

driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options)
driver.get("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUVcZfQe-Kw")

Thank you! I made an edit for selenium V4 since `firefox_profile` is deprecated — Chad, May 06 '22 at 19:12

How can I mute the browser/tab in selenium using the geckodriver

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