Operating System: Windows 10
In an earlier article I posted how to How to Disable Windows Volume Popup, but that required a small 300 KB program to be installed.
In my opinion the real-offensive element is actually the browser notification banner that gets attached to the media control popup. This is what I mean:

Both Chrome and Firefox notification banner attaches to this volume popup. Disable it like this:
Chrome
- In Chrome address bar, type
chrome://flags/
- Then find the setting
Hardware Media Key Handling
and set it toDisabled
.

Firefox
- In Firefox address bar, type
about:config
- Then set
media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled
tofalse

Enjoy just the volume control bar without the ugly offensive banner!
