Closing application when falling asleep

Everytime my MacBook Pro falls asleep, Firefox and all other open applications got closed and donwloading cancelled and I loose all my open web pages. How can I prevent this? Thanx.

apple really needs to come up with an update to fix this issue. i mean you may loose all your work just because your mac wants to sleep. I think this is really stupid of apple to not think about this issue. i think there should be an option to keep the mac ON while the lid is closed. And i also think that it needs a sleep mode like windows does, you know the one where computer does go to sleep but without closing all the applications so that we wont loose all the work that we were doing and had not been saved yet.

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Sorry to post yet another MBP sleep question.
Mine takes approximately 20 seconds to go to sleep each time.
I've tried all of the suggestions. Stopped apps, bluetooth, menu extras, etc.
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I discovered all of this because when I closed my lid it wasn't sleeping, and then when I opened the lid, it would sleep...
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Dear Expert,
Is there a shortcut to put your mac to sleep so you don't have to go cliking around with your mouse? Is there a shortcut to closing all applications before doing so? If a mac is asleep, does it use more energy if there are applications open?
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The shortcut for putting your computer to sleep is to briefly tap the power button. If you hold it for several seconds it will reboot your computer, so just tap it for a split second. The computer will not use any more power if you put it to sleep with "applications running". Nothing is really running while the computer sleeps, and the power used is just what is needed to keep the RAM from being cleared.
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