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For the last few months, I had a strange issue with my Fedora 40 installation which was driving me mad.

When I had the computer running for some time, I couldn't use more than one browser, because the other couldn't even start or couldn't load websites. It was happening with Firefox and any other chromium based browser. It was unpredictable and nothing conclusive was visible in the logs and strace just showed it was waiting for something I had a hard time identifying.

Then I installed Fedora 41 on a laptop and it started to happen immediately there - not just after some time, immediately!

I took the laptop out from USB-C display to look at it in another room and it stopped.

Then I vaguely remembered I put an U2F key to my screen's usb hub for convenience of use and the issues started some time after that.

Yep. It was the key. When it's connected through the USB hub in my screen, the browsers somehow "battle" for it 🤦‍♀️ It's a normal USB-A U2F key by IDEM. Never heard about such issues, and the key is working normally when connected to the computer directly.

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