<![CDATA[Why is Opera stopping my Mac sleeping?]]>I use Opera on an iMac and a MacBook Pro.

MBP is all fine, Opera open and MBP will sleep as per settings no problem.

On my iMac Opera is constantly keeping my iMac awake and I cannot figure out why.

No videos playing, no websites open but still Activity Monitor reports that Opera is keeping the Mac awake. I even changed to a static background from an animated one to make sure it wasn't that, but still it wont. I have to close Opera completely for the Mac to sleep.

Does anyone have any ideas?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/33378/why-is-opera-stopping-my-mac-sleepingRSS for NodeTue, 12 May 2026 10:40:18 GMTTue, 02 Jul 2019 10:07:59 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Why is Opera stopping my Mac sleeping? on Thu, 04 Jul 2019 10:44:11 GMT]]>@bean11 No, I checked that too, no DL's running at all.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/175162https://forums.opera.com/post/175162Thu, 04 Jul 2019 10:44:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why is Opera stopping my Mac sleeping? on Thu, 04 Jul 2019 10:43:25 GMT]]>Or, do you have any running downloads or paused downloads? Opera explicitly prevents sleeping In Windows or mac while it's downloading something.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/175161https://forums.opera.com/post/175161Thu, 04 Jul 2019 10:43:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why is Opera stopping my Mac sleeping? on Thu, 04 Jul 2019 09:50:08 GMT]]>@concretable thank you for this suggestion.

It is not always something I can or want to do.

There are MANY occasions where I am working on something or wish to leave a page open to come back to again in a short time, or indeed the next day, I have many many things going on that would mean I would keep the browser open.

It is not a solution in my mind to be forced to close a browser in order for a computer to sleep when not being used.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/175159https://forums.opera.com/post/175159Thu, 04 Jul 2019 09:50:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why is Opera stopping my Mac sleeping? on Thu, 04 Jul 2019 06:06:15 GMT]]>After websurfing you can easily close your opera.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/175154https://forums.opera.com/post/175154Thu, 04 Jul 2019 06:06:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why is Opera stopping my Mac sleeping? on Tue, 02 Jul 2019 19:47:50 GMT]]>Why not close Opera after you finish websurfing? What is the point of leaving it running if it is not in use?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/175073https://forums.opera.com/post/175073Tue, 02 Jul 2019 19:47:50 GMT