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O/S turns off after 1 hour of non usage.

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Pappy
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I had FF56 and set o/s to sleep after 1 hour. touch a button and it wakes up.

Now I have FF62 and system turns off after 1 hour.

I had FF56 and set o/s to sleep after 1 hour. touch a button and it wakes up. Now I have FF62 and system turns off after 1 hour.

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Hi Pappy007, I can't think of a Firefox setting that would influence whether your system stays on, sleeps, or shuts off. These sound like power management settings in Linux somewhere. No?

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Hi Pappy007, I can't think of a Firefox setting that would influence whether your system stays on, sleeps, or shuts off. These sound like power management settings in Linux somewhere. No?

Pappy
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I believe your right.

Thank you.