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Tab with YouTube video preventing Mac from auto sleeping

star-affinity replied
star-affinity

The topic says it all. I can still manually sleep the computer, but as long as the tab with YouTube video is open the computer won't go to sleep automatically.

The topic says it all. I can still manually sleep the computer, but as long as the tab with YouTube video is open the computer won't go to sleep automatically.

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Hi, since you can close the tab do you really want to do a Refresh ?

Please try a Refresh but Note that this does more than uninstalling and re-installing does. Normal uninstalling does not remove some preferences which may have become corrupt. Please Refresh but do this 1st:

then

Pkshadow said

Hi, since you can close the tab do you really want to do a Refresh ? Please try a Refresh but Note that this does more than uninstalling and re-installing does. Normal uninstalling does not remove some preferences which may have become corrupt. Please Refresh but do this 1st: then

Hmm… I guess your reply was intended for another topic?