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For technical reasons, this is impossible without cooperation from plugin authors. Sounds played by Flash are sent straight from Flash to the Windows kernel APIs, we don't see them at all, let alone know what tab they came from.

The idea is a good one, and one we've thought of in the past, but it doesn't seem to be implementable.

Our downloads UI needs help. It's gotten neglected as we've worked on other high-priority stuff. We do now have some people working on the download code, but there's a lot of stability/bugfixing/testing to do first before we get to too many feature changes.

That said, among the change I'd like to make are a shorter shelf, smaller items within the shelf, changing the progress wheel appearance, making the shelf easier to close, better handling of auto-open files, etc.

Tangentially -- it's amazing how many people say exactly this and then follow with "but you're missing one feature I want, can you add an option for XYZ?" I don't think people realize that simplicity comes from a willingness to say "no" to a lot of requests. I've made a lot of people angry on the bug tracker by closing their bugs, but that's an important part of what it takes.

(Note, I'm not suggesting we should never listen to our users; I'm suggesting that tradeoffs are an inherent part of design.)

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