I'm not sure if you can do this in other operating systems (too lazy to find out), but, in Vista, you can just turn down the volume for Firefox, but still have another appplication's volume unaffected (Media player, Zune, etc.), so it doesn't really need a mute button.
I love all the people commenting about the second challenge. For all you still wondering, for challenges like this, where its sponsored(in this case, by Axe), they don't usually put it on a new game, and they also usually put it on one of the highest rated games, so it will probably have had a challenge before.
@WamoWas21
I agree with you but only if you're only thinking of Flash games. I've played better Point and click games, but never with a Flash player. (Myst series ftw)
There's alot of people saying that the frost word is the first sword and whining about it. It's kind of annoying and they obviously haven't ventured east of the town, where they would fin an actual sword that actually worked