Acrobat hang when window mode switching

After using Acrobat X for a bit viewing and/or editing a PDF it will lock up upon trying to switch to and from full screen.

Thanks for the reply. I think the issue is just confined to Mac machines + Adobe products (this issue doesn't occur when I switch from Word Preview 2016, or Office 2011). I can confirm this issue occurs on more than one Mac as well.
Here is a slightly larger GIF if the first was too hard to make out
https://i.imgur.com/CNKnkC0.gif
It's almost as if the text manipulation / selection from InDesign is carrying over to the Acrobat window, interrupting the normal focus it should get on first click...
Edit: It just occurred with Spotify - Switched from Spotify to Acrobat, with a scanned image PDF. The rectangular selection tool tries to grab a region of the image several times before focus returns to the Acrobat window. It also just happened after manipulating images and text in Word 2016 Preview and Word 2011.

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