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Firefox desktop notifications that don't disappear

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Enabling push notifications in Firefox for websites (such as gmail) does give notifications on my desktop (ubuntu). However, any notification seems to disappear very quickly, usually 2 sec but maybe up to a minute depending on if I move my mouse over the notification or if I refresh the notification tray.

I would like to have these notifications stay displayed in my desktop notification until I intentionally dismiss them.

My desktop settings for notifications from Firefox are the same as those for applications which do have notifications which last until I dismiss them. I am guessing it is setting in Firefox that I need to change. Is this setting something I can change?

Enabling push notifications in Firefox for websites (such as gmail) does give notifications on my desktop (ubuntu). However, any notification seems to disappear very quickly, usually 2 sec but maybe up to a minute depending on if I move my mouse over the notification or if I refresh the notification tray. I would like to have these notifications stay displayed in my desktop notification until I intentionally dismiss them. My desktop settings for notifications from Firefox are the same as those for applications which do have notifications which last until I dismiss them. I am guessing it is setting in Firefox that I need to change. Is this setting something I can change?

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I'm interested in seeing what the notifications look like. Screenshot please.

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20201216 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.77.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.9.14-1-default OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz Memory: 31.0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics 4600