Win 8 / IE 10 - can't turn off sounds on background tabs

My autistic son likes to play flash games (Friv.com) on a Lenovo AIO running Win 8, but it's driving us crazy.  He opens multiple tabs with multiple games.  We get a 'wall of sound' because the active tab and all of the background tabs continue
playing, and we can't figure out a way to mute the background tabs.  Any ideas on how to solve this in IE 10 (or is it a setting in Win 8)?  TIA.

Hi,
the Zac browser (http://zacbrowser.com ) is a web browser that targets children with learning disabilities. Its a MODAL browser that does not use tabs and attention is focused on the one browser window.
Originally IE did NOT play sounds/animations in background tabs, but users requested otherwise. There is no 'switch' in IE to do what you want to do.... (It might be called the ESP switch)...
Its either all or nothing.
You can mute your sound with one keystroke... usually the f11 key (not function+f11)
Rob^_^
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