I am looking for a firefox extension that will allow me to toggle microphone access, preferrably per tab, for example disabling it while I’m not speaking in a zoom meeting to reduce tracking.
Edit: clarification due to misunderstanding: i want something that lets me toggle actually giving a site mic input without removing permissions
This is Windows-based and mutes your microphone globally, but if you’re concerned about leaking video/audio accidentally I’ve found it very helpful:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/video-conference-mute
This is part of PowerToys. It says “legacy mode” because they were gonna deprecate it now that they’re trying to build the functionality into W11, but relented and are keeping it based on the outcry from W10 users.
You can do this on Linux pretty easily, just rig a keyboard shortcut via whatever mechanism your desktop environment provides to run something like pactl mute @DEFAULT_SOURCE