Firefox prevents suspend and shutdown (lemmings.world)

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Currently running Nobara 41, and if Firefox is playing a video, or even just has a paused video on it, my computer will not go to sleep until I exit Firefox entirely. If I try to shut down instead, it will seemingly close all open apps, and the displays will go black but the mouse cursor remains on screen and does not respond.

If I start Firefox from the CLI, it shows nothing when I try to suspend.

This only happens with Firefox, and as far as I can tell, doesn't happen when playing a video elsewhere.

I don't have any power savings settings that I'm aware of that should be preventing anything, so I don't know what's going on. This is a recent issue, starting maybe 2 weeks ago. I haven't installed any new software besides updates in that time.

Does anybody have any idea what is going on here?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

what happens exactly when you try to sleep it?

what does systemd-inhibit --list say when you can't sleep it?

also, recently I learned that the system can't sleep if a FUSE file system (like NTFS on linux) has file activity right when going down (e.g. a large file was being copied or written).
how did you install firefox, to where (which filesystem), and what ff version?

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