diff --git a/resources/css/components/navigation-rail.css b/resources/css/components/navigation-rail.css
index a67847b2..7f2b5089 100644
--- a/resources/css/components/navigation-rail.css
+++ b/resources/css/components/navigation-rail.css
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
  * docs/reference/m3/components-navigation-selection-inputs.md § Navigation Rail).
  *
  *   [data-md-navigation-rail="collapsed|expanded|collapsible|modal|adaptive"]   data-md-open
- *     [data-md-navigation-rail-scrim]              modal and adaptive rails, open only
+ *                                                  data-md-closing="sheet|scrim", while it exits
+ *     [data-md-navigation-rail-scrim]              modal and adaptive rails, open or closing only
  *     [data-md-navigation-rail-panel]               the <nav>
  *       [data-md-navigation-rail-header]            never scrolls
  *         [data-md-navigation-rail-menu-row]         the menu button and the brand
@@ -33,6 +34,15 @@
  * `resources/js/navigation.js` reads the same numbers, so the menu button and the drawing agree at
  * every width.
  *
+ * **Closing**: nothing here transitions `display`, which Firefox cannot do even with
+ * `allow-discrete`, so a panel sliding off the window and a fading scrim were cut to nothing there.
+ * `resources/js/navigation.js` sets `data-md-closing` on a rail that was open over the page until
+ * its exit transitions have run — `sheet` when the panel leaves the window (a compact adaptive
+ * rail, or one that hides when collapsed), `scrim` when the panel stands in the layout again — and
+ * the rules near the end of the file keep what is leaving displayed meanwhile, in every engine.
+ * The collapsed branches do not read it: a closing rail is already collapsed, which is what
+ * `--md-navigation-rail-value` says the moment it starts to close.
+ *
  * The first set of branches also publishes the answer: `--md-navigation-rail-value` is `expanded`
  * on every rail and `collapsed` wherever those branches hold — M3's two rail values, Compose's
  * WideNavigationRailValue — so what an application puts in a rail reads it with
@@ -306,16 +316,17 @@
        content, placed on the content-adjacent edge" — also its answer to a page scrolling under a
        fixed rail — and "container fill can be turned off (transparent) as long as items keep ≥3:1
        contrast" (N-22). Neither applies to a rail open over a scrim, a surface over the page. */
-    [data-md-navigation-rail][data-md-divider]:not([data-md-open]) > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel] {
+    [data-md-navigation-rail][data-md-divider]:not([data-md-open], [data-md-closing='sheet']) > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel] {
         border-inline-end: 1px solid var(--md-sys-color-outline-variant);
     }
 
-    [data-md-navigation-rail][data-md-fill='false']:not([data-md-open]) > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel] {
+    [data-md-navigation-rail][data-md-fill='false']:not([data-md-open], [data-md-closing='sheet']) > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel] {
         background-color: transparent;
     }
 
-    /* Open: expanded over a scrim, in surface-container with a large corner at its inner edge. */
-    [data-md-navigation-rail][data-md-open] > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel] {
+    /* Open: expanded over a scrim, in surface-container with a large corner at its inner edge — and
+       still, while a panel that is leaving the window slides off it (`data-md-closing="sheet"`). */
+    [data-md-navigation-rail]:is([data-md-open], [data-md-closing='sheet']) > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel] {
         position: fixed;
         inset-block: 0;
         inset-inline-start: 0;
@@ -350,8 +361,7 @@
             box-shadow: var(--md-sys-elevation-2);
             translate: -100% 0;
             transition:
-                translate var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-accelerate),
-                display var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) allow-discrete;
+                translate var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-accelerate);
 
             &:is([dir='rtl'], [dir='rtl'] *) {
                 translate: 100% 0;
@@ -362,8 +372,7 @@
             display: flex;
             translate: 0 0;
             transition:
-                translate var(--md-sys-motion-spatial-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-decelerate),
-                display var(--md-sys-motion-spatial-default-duration) allow-discrete;
+                translate var(--md-sys-motion-spatial-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-decelerate);
 
             @starting-style {
                 translate: -100% 0;
@@ -395,8 +404,7 @@
             display: none;
             translate: -100% 0;
             transition:
-                translate var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-accelerate),
-                display var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) allow-discrete;
+                translate var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-accelerate);
 
             &:is([dir='rtl'], [dir='rtl'] *) {
                 translate: 100% 0;
@@ -408,8 +416,7 @@
                 display: none;
                 translate: -100% 0;
                 transition:
-                    translate var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-accelerate),
-                    display var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) allow-discrete;
+                    translate var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-accelerate);
 
                 &:is([dir='rtl'], [dir='rtl'] *) {
                     translate: 100% 0;
@@ -422,8 +429,7 @@
                 display: none;
                 translate: -100% 0;
                 transition:
-                    translate var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-accelerate),
-                    display var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) allow-discrete;
+                    translate var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-accelerate);
 
                 &:is([dir='rtl'], [dir='rtl'] *) {
                     translate: 100% 0;
@@ -439,8 +445,7 @@
                 display: none;
                 translate: -100% 0;
                 transition:
-                    translate var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-accelerate),
-                    display var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) allow-discrete;
+                    translate var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-accelerate);
 
                 &:is([dir='rtl'], [dir='rtl'] *) {
                     translate: 100% 0;
@@ -456,8 +461,7 @@
                 display: none;
                 translate: -100% 0;
                 transition:
-                    translate var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-accelerate),
-                    display var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) allow-discrete;
+                    translate var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-accelerate);
 
                 &:is([dir='rtl'], [dir='rtl'] *) {
                     translate: 100% 0;
@@ -470,8 +474,7 @@
         display: flex;
         translate: 0 0;
         transition:
-            translate var(--md-sys-motion-spatial-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-decelerate),
-            display var(--md-sys-motion-spatial-default-duration) allow-discrete;
+            translate var(--md-sys-motion-spatial-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-easing-emphasized-decelerate);
 
         @starting-style {
             translate: -100% 0;
@@ -486,6 +489,23 @@
         }
     }
 
+    /* Closing: what leaves stays drawn while it animates out. The exits above transition `translate`
+       and the scrim's `opacity` only — not `display`, which Firefox cannot transition even with
+       `allow-discrete`, so the slide and the fade were cut to nothing there — and
+       resources/js/navigation.js sets `data-md-closing` on the rail until those transitions have
+       run: `sheet` when the panel leaves the window, `scrim` when only the scrim was over the page.
+       One attribute more than every collapsed branch, so a hold outranks the `display: none` those
+       branches draw. */
+    [data-md-navigation-rail][data-md-hide-when-collapsed][data-md-closing='sheet'] > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel] {
+        display: flex;
+    }
+
+    @media (width < 600px) {
+        [data-md-navigation-rail='adaptive'][data-md-closing='sheet'] > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel] {
+            display: flex;
+        }
+    }
+
     /* The two bands the configuration above does not reach, because there it is the window and not
        the visitor that collapses the rail: below `medium` for a collapsible rail — already held at
        its collapsed width above — and `medium` itself for the adaptive one, which M3 gives a
@@ -520,9 +540,11 @@
         display: none;
         background-color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--md-sys-color-scrim) 32%, transparent);
         opacity: 0;
-        transition:
-            opacity var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default),
-            display var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) allow-discrete;
+        transition: opacity var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-effects-default);
+    }
+
+    [data-md-navigation-rail][data-md-closing] > [data-md-navigation-rail-scrim] {
+        display: block;
     }
 
     [data-md-navigation-rail][data-md-open] > [data-md-navigation-rail-scrim] {
diff --git a/resources/js/navigation.js b/resources/js/navigation.js
index 4c14847e..5e7eaa4f 100644
--- a/resources/js/navigation.js
+++ b/resources/js/navigation.js
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
  * (`hide()`). It is never remembered.
  *
  * `materialNavigationRail` is one rail's view of the store for its `mode` and whether it hides
- * when collapsed — see resources/views/components/navigation-rail.blade.php.
+ * when collapsed — see resources/views/components/navigation-rail.blade.php. It also holds a
+ * closing rail on screen for its exit (`closing`, below).
  *
  * `materialNavigationBar` is `<x-navigation-bar hide-on-scroll>` — see the same file's sibling.
  */
@@ -104,6 +105,20 @@ document.addEventListener('alpine:init', () => {
         queries: [],
         listeners: [],
 
+        /**
+         * `data-md-closing` while a rail that was open over the page leaves it: `sheet` when the
+         * panel slides away (a compact adaptive rail, or one that hides when collapsed), `scrim`
+         * when only the scrim fades and the panel stands in the layout again. navigation-rail.css
+         * keeps what is leaving displayed while it is set, because the exit cannot hold `display`
+         * itself: Firefox does not transition `display`, even with `allow-discrete`, so the slide
+         * and the fade were cut to nothing there. It is dropped once the exit's own transitions
+         * have finished — none under reduced motion, whose durations are zero — or at once when
+         * the rail opens again.
+         */
+        closing: null,
+        closings: 0,
+        wasOpen: false,
+
         init() {
             if (mode !== 'adaptive') {
                 // Below `medium` a collapsible rail is held at its collapsed width whatever the
@@ -152,6 +167,47 @@ document.addEventListener('alpine:init', () => {
             this.queries.forEach((query, index) => query.removeEventListener('change', this.listeners[index]))
         },
 
+        /**
+         * Holds a rail that has just closed on screen until its exit has run; see `closing`. The
+         * view calls it from `x-effect`, beside the `x-bind` that drops `data-md-open`, so both
+         * attributes change in the same flush: a `$watch` would set `data-md-closing` a microtask
+         * later, and a style read in between would settle what is leaving as already hidden.
+         */
+        settle(open) {
+            if (open === this.wasOpen) {
+                return
+            }
+
+            this.wasOpen = open
+
+            const closing = ++this.closings
+
+            if (open) {
+                this.closing = null
+
+                return
+            }
+
+            // Whether the panel leaves the window, rather than returning to the layout: a compact
+            // adaptive rail has no place in the layout, and a rail that hides when collapsed has
+            // left it. Decided from the state, not measured: reading the panel's style between the
+            // two attribute changes would settle it as hidden, and nothing would transition.
+            this.closing = this.away || (mode === 'adaptive' && upTo('medium').matches) ? 'sheet' : 'scrim'
+
+            // A frame on, the attributes have met the style, and the exit's transitions exist.
+            requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+                const exits = [...this.$root.querySelectorAll(':scope > :is([data-md-navigation-rail-panel], [data-md-navigation-rail-scrim])')]
+                    .flatMap((element) => element.getAnimations())
+                    .filter((animation) => ['translate', 'opacity'].includes(animation.transitionProperty))
+
+                Promise.allSettled(exits.map((animation) => animation.finished)).then(() => {
+                    if (closing === this.closings) {
+                        this.closing = null
+                    }
+                })
+            })
+        },
+
         /** What this rail's mode and the visitor's choice make of it, before anything opens it. */
         get standing() {
             if (mode === 'expanded') {
diff --git a/resources/views/components/navigation-rail.blade.php b/resources/views/components/navigation-rail.blade.php
index 443589f3..9c5df837 100644
--- a/resources/views/components/navigation-rail.blade.php
+++ b/resources/views/components/navigation-rail.blade.php
@@ -81,8 +81,11 @@
      (`false`) drops the container colour for a transparent rail over the page's own background,
      which M3 allows as long as the items keep a 3:1 contrast against what is behind them. A rail
      open over a scrim keeps its fill and drops the divider whatever those say: it is a surface
-     over the page then. The rail does not scroll with the page: in a flex row it sticks to the top
-     of the viewport, as tall as the viewport at most.
+     over the page then. As it closes it keeps `data-md-closing` (`sheet` while the panel slides off
+     the window, `scrim` while only the scrim fades) until the exit has run, which is what holds it
+     on screen in Firefox, where `display` cannot transition (resources/js/navigation.js). The rail
+     does not scroll with the page: in a flex row it sticks to the top of the viewport, as tall as
+     the viewport at most.
 
      Values from androidx Compose Material 3 (Apache-2.0), androidx-main
      27cf9a7d5788aa0f5f2d8b6699ce279560daf326: NavigationRailCollapsedTokens.kt,
@@ -128,6 +131,8 @@
     @if ($interactive)
         x-data="materialNavigationRail('{{ $mode }}', {{ $hideWhenCollapsed ? 'true' : 'false' }})"
         x-bind:data-md-open="open"
+        x-bind:data-md-closing="closing"
+        x-effect="settle(open)"
     @endif
     {{ $attributes->merge(['style' => "--navigation-rail-width: {$width}"]) }}
 >
diff --git a/tests/Browser/NavigationTest.php b/tests/Browser/NavigationTest.php
index 35e93666..77928277 100644
--- a/tests/Browser/NavigationTest.php
+++ b/tests/Browser/NavigationTest.php
@@ -555,3 +555,90 @@ it('reads expanded while a modal rail is open over the page, and collapsed once
         ->assertScript('! '.railShows('expanded-only'))
         ->assertNoJavaScriptErrors();
 });
+
+/**
+ * Closes a rail with the given script and reports whether, sampling every few ms in the page
+ * itself, it was ever caught part-way: the whole close in one round trip, since a separate
+ * `script` and `assertScript` apiece already take as long as the 200ms exit (see ContainmentTest's
+ * scrim fades).
+ */
+function caughtMidClose(mixed $page, string $close, string $partWay): bool
+{
+    return $page->script(<<<JS
+        (async () => {
+            {$close}
+
+            for (let i = 0; i < 60; i++) {
+                if ({$partWay}) return true
+                await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 5))
+            }
+            return false
+        })()
+        JS) === true;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Opened and done opening: no transition left on the element. Firefox creates a transition on its
+ * next refresh tick, so straight after the change its computed style already reads the end value
+ * while the entry has not begun, and a close then would start from where the entry did.
+ */
+function settled(string $element): string
+{
+    return "{$element}.getAnimations().length === 0";
+}
+
+/** Still drawn, and strictly between resting at the window's edge and gone past it. */
+function slidingOut(string $panel): string
+{
+    return "(getComputedStyle({$panel}).display !== 'none' && {$panel}.getBoundingClientRect().left < -2 && {$panel}.getBoundingClientRect().right > 2)";
+}
+
+it('slides the compact rail out on close, rather than making it vanish', function () {
+    $page = shellPage(599, 860)
+        ->click('@shell-menu')
+        ->assertScript(RAIL.".hasAttribute('data-md-open')")
+        ->assertScript(settled(RAIL_PANEL).' && Math.round('.RAIL_PANEL.'.getBoundingClientRect().left) === 0');
+
+    expect(caughtMidClose($page, "document.querySelector('[data-md-navigation-rail-scrim]').click()", slidingOut(RAIL_PANEL)))->toBeTrue();
+
+    $page->assertScript('getComputedStyle('.RAIL_PANEL.").display === 'none'")
+        ->assertScript('! '.RAIL.".hasAttribute('data-md-closing')")
+        ->assertNoJavaScriptErrors();
+});
+
+it('slides a rail that hides when collapsed out on close, rather than making it vanish', function () {
+    $page = navigationExtrasProbe();
+    $rail = "document.querySelector('#hiding-rail [data-md-navigation-rail]')";
+    $panel = "{$rail}.querySelector(':scope > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel]')";
+
+    $page->click('#hiding-rail [data-md-navigation-rail-menu]')
+        ->assertScript("Math.round({$rail}.getBoundingClientRect().width) === 0")
+        ->click('#open-hiding-rail')
+        ->assertScript("{$rail}.hasAttribute('data-md-open')")
+        ->assertScript(settled($panel)." && Math.round({$panel}.getBoundingClientRect().left) === 0 && Math.round({$panel}.getBoundingClientRect().width) === 256");
+
+    expect(caughtMidClose($page, "{$rail}.querySelector(':scope > [data-md-navigation-rail-scrim]').click()", slidingOut($panel)))->toBeTrue();
+
+    $page->assertScript("getComputedStyle({$panel}).display === 'none'")
+        ->assertScript("Math.round({$rail}.getBoundingClientRect().width) === 0")
+        ->assertNoJavaScriptErrors();
+});
+
+it('fades a modal rail\'s scrim out on close while the rail stands collapsed in the layout', function () {
+    $scrim = RAIL.".querySelector(':scope > [data-md-navigation-rail-scrim]')";
+
+    $page = railValueProbe('modal', 1000)
+        ->click('#open-rail')
+        ->assertScript(RAIL.".hasAttribute('data-md-open')")
+        ->assertScript(settled($scrim)." && getComputedStyle({$scrim}).opacity === '1'");
+
+    $fading = "(getComputedStyle({$scrim}).display !== 'none' && parseFloat(getComputedStyle({$scrim}).opacity) > 0.02 && parseFloat(getComputedStyle({$scrim}).opacity) < 0.98)";
+
+    expect(caughtMidClose($page, "{$scrim}.click()", $fading))->toBeTrue();
+
+    // The panel goes straight back into the layout: only the scrim was over the page.
+    $page->assertScript("getComputedStyle({$scrim}).display === 'none'")
+        ->assertScript('getComputedStyle('.RAIL_PANEL.").position === 'sticky'")
+        ->assertScript(railWidth(96))
+        ->assertNoJavaScriptErrors();
+});
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Components/NavigationRailTest.php b/tests/Feature/Components/NavigationRailTest.php
index bfd81c78..12f68d5f 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Components/NavigationRailTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Components/NavigationRailTest.php
@@ -63,10 +63,11 @@ it('takes M3\'s optional divider and turns the container fill off', function ()
 
     $css = ComponentStylesheet::read('navigation-rail');
 
-    // Neither reaches a rail open over a scrim, which is a surface over the page (N-22).
-    expect($css->declarations('[data-md-navigation-rail][data-md-divider]:not([data-md-open]) > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel]'))
+    // Neither reaches a rail open over a scrim, which is a surface over the page (N-22), nor one
+    // sliding off the window as it closes.
+    expect($css->declarations('[data-md-navigation-rail][data-md-divider]:not([data-md-open], [data-md-closing=\'sheet\']) > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel]'))
         ->toBe(['border-inline-end' => '1px solid var(--md-sys-color-outline-variant)'])
-        ->and($css->declarations('[data-md-navigation-rail][data-md-fill=\'false\']:not([data-md-open]) > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel]'))
+        ->and($css->declarations('[data-md-navigation-rail][data-md-fill=\'false\']:not([data-md-open], [data-md-closing=\'sheet\']) > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel]'))
         ->toBe(['background-color' => 'transparent'])
         // A collapsible rail is held to its collapsed width where M3 asks for a bar instead (N-24).
         ->and($css->declarations('[data-md-navigation-rail=\'collapsible\']', ['@media (width < 600px)']))
@@ -151,6 +152,31 @@ it('hides a collapsible or adaptive rail entirely when told to, and only those',
  * every branch sets, and for `--md-navigation-rail-value`, which each branch turns from `expanded`
  * to `collapsed` so an application's style query answers exactly when the rail's own shape does.
  */
+it('holds a closing rail on screen for its exit rather than transitioning display', function () {
+    $css = ComponentStylesheet::read('navigation-rail');
+
+    // Firefox cannot transition `display`, so no rule tries: the view sets `data-md-closing` beside
+    // `data-md-open`, in the same flush, and navigation.js drops it once the exit has run.
+    $discrete = collect($css->rules())
+        ->flatMap(fn (array $rule): array => array_values($rule['declarations']))
+        ->filter(fn (string $value): bool => str_contains($value, 'allow-discrete'));
+
+    expect($discrete)->toBeEmpty()
+        ->and((string) $this->blade('<x-navigation-rail mode="modal" />'))
+        ->toContain('x-bind:data-md-closing="closing"')
+        ->toContain('x-effect="settle(open)"')
+        // The panel that leaves the window stays drawn, and in its open geometry, while it slides.
+        ->and($css->declarations("[data-md-navigation-rail][data-md-hide-when-collapsed][data-md-closing='sheet'] > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel]"))
+        ->toBe(['display' => 'flex'])
+        ->and($css->declarations("[data-md-navigation-rail='adaptive'][data-md-closing='sheet'] > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel]", ['@media (width < 600px)']))
+        ->toBe(['display' => 'flex'])
+        ->and($css->declarations("[data-md-navigation-rail]:is([data-md-open], [data-md-closing='sheet']) > [data-md-navigation-rail-panel]"))
+        ->toMatchArray(['position' => 'fixed', 'width' => 'var(--navigation-rail-expanded-width)'])
+        // The scrim stays drawn for its fade whichever way the rail closes.
+        ->and($css->declarations('[data-md-navigation-rail][data-md-closing] > [data-md-navigation-rail-scrim]'))
+        ->toBe(['display' => 'block']);
+});
+
 it('reproduces every branch of the old rail-collapsed variant for the rail\'s own width and its value', function () {
     $css = ComponentStylesheet::read('navigation-rail');
     $collapsed = ['width' => 'var(--navigation-rail-collapsed-width)', '--md-navigation-rail-value' => 'collapsed'];