When an agent checks a web page in WebKit (Safari's engine) or Firefox with a Playwright script of its own, no sound from that page reaches the computer's speakers anymore. Before, a walkthrough's narration could start playing out loud during such a check. Media, Web Audio and speech synthesis are muted inside the page, while the page still behaves as it would for a person using it.
Browsers that agents start stay silent, WebKit included
Shared by Daniel Sadilek on November 8, 2026