Finder, Mail and Safari Pop up and then Pop down

Tech Support
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Click here to see YouTube Video of Problem in Action

When I have finder open and I click on Window and then select a previous Window, it will pop up from the dock and then appear to pop back down to the dock. My only work around is to open a new finder window. Not sure how to close all of the windows as I can’t get them to stay up. Sometimes Merge all windows will clean things up a bit but not ideal.

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I have been living with this awhile now, it is just getting frustrating. I keep thinking that the next update will fix it but I have been having this problem since before Catalina.

I was hoping that “Clean my Mac” would help, I run the Disk Utility regularly.

Not sure what else to try.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Steve

2

Some things come to mind:

  • What keyboard do you have? Is it a “bad butterfly” one? Maybe a key is sticking?
  • the ⌘ - M keyboard shortcut minimizes a window. You do not have a KM macro triggering that performs that keystroke?
  • Have you configured any smart corners to minimize frontmost app?
3

Noticed that you have something that creates number shortcuts sort of things on the left of the menu when you mouse trough it; if it’s a third party app it might conflict

4

But then it would be all apps. Just seems limited to these 3.

5

Not sure what you are referring to.

6

I had to go back and watch my own video, those numbers are from Voice Control.

The Apps have been popping up and down even prior to Voice app

7

that’s exactly what I’m wondering about, how can this happen for these only?
Really strange

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Oh ok didn’t know what those were :grimacing::upside_down_face: