Background Applications minimize on their own

I have a problem with applications that are not currently being used in the background minimizing on their own.
Namely, When I am multitasking or working in two windows at once, say Pages on one side of the screen and firefox on another side of the screen, the application that is not currently active will often disappear from the screen and is either minimized or requires a reclick on the dock icon to re-appear on the screen.
I am up to date on all updates and have had this issue for quite a while.
Does anyone have an idea why this is happening or how to fix it. It would make my life so much easier as I multitask all the time and having one application randomly quit is very annoying.

HI Addienyc,
have you check to see if "double-click a window's title bar to minimize is enabled"? if so have you tried disabling it?
the setting can be found in apple menu, system preferences, appearance

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