Google Chrome’s new media playback controls are part of the stable version of Chrome 77 and higher but are but disabled by default. Here is how you can enable the button.
Copy and paste the link below in a new tab.
The below screen shot will the be displayed and just select enabled from the drop down box to the right.
After you've done that relaunch the browser, and you’ll see a tiny play button next to the left of your personal icon button to the right of the url field. The new feature will allow you to skip forward or back, pause, or play a file in a tab.
*FYI - If you do not see the media control icon it's because there are no open tabs with media. To see this icon there must be a tab with media to play.
The more tabs with media to play will show up in a drop down list once you've enabled this feature. This is a way to quickly identify where unwanted noise may be coming from if you should happen to have many tabs open, and this option will make it quick and easy to stop media playing that you don't want to hear.
The more tabs with media to play will show up in a drop down list once you've enabled this feature. This is a way to quickly identify where unwanted noise may be coming from if you should happen to have many tabs open, and this option will make it quick and easy to stop media playing that you don't want to hear.
There you have it, and good luck, Google may change how it works or remove it in the future. However, I believe Google will enable the Play/Pause button for everyone in future versions of Chrome by default, but we'll see.
