FF is "always on top" occasionally

For the past coupla iterations of FF I've been having this occasional problem: FF remains "always on top" of my windows, even if others are highlighted, even over my Win taskbar, which is set to auto-hide and locked. I usually drop my cursor down to the bottom of the page to pop up the taskbar, but now I have to hit the winkey. Once I get FF minimized, things are fine. If this occurs I close all tabs, flush the cache, then reboot FF; problem fixed.
I have FF 22.0 on an HP p6720f running under Win7 Home Premium x64.

I've seen previous support questions with similar problems where switching into fullscreen mode and then out again would fix the problem. Maybe try that next time as well.
If none of this solves the problem then I would try troubleshooting in [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode|Safe Mode]] and failing that do a [[Reset Firefox – easily fix most problems | Reset]].
I hope that helps.

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Thanks.
I've actually since reboot, so I can't actually confirm that this works, but I'll put a [SOLVED] up there until it happens again.

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