Chrome Toolbox causes Google Chrome to stop adhering to Windows Sound Mixer's mute audio setting

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install Chrome Toolbox on Google Chrome
2. Open Windows 7 audio Mixer
3. Mute Google Chrome

What is the expected output?
Chrome respects the mixer setting and remains muted.

What do you see instead?
Chrome bounces the audio back on in approximately 500 milliseconds.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Toolbox 1.0.32, Chrome beta 21.0.1180.49, Windows 7 SP1 64-bit

Please provide any additional information below.
Uninstalling Toolbox makes Chrome respect the mixer settings again. This issue 
has persisted through multiple Chrome versions, possibly always.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ramimark...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2012 at 8:12

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Annex-- by "mute" I meant clicking the speaker icon to turn it red, not sliding 
the volume down to zero.

Original comment by ramimark...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2012 at 8:16