Clicking anywhere on one monitor loses the active window in the other monitor

Windows XP Pro, two monitor setup which has worked without issue for well over a year. Still works, with the following quirk: Suppose I am sending an email and I wish to attach pix which I am selecting from Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer) on the left side and my email front end on the right side. I have a few other windows open on the right side, in the background. I am just picking photos shown on the left monitor to attach to the email I am working on in the right monitor. Simple.
The email front end is on top of any open windows on the right. When I click on the left screen, the right screen (apparently) reverts to whichever window it thinks is "most important"...but in any event, the desired target window goes away so there is no place to drag & drop the pic to. UNLESS, of course, my target window (the email front end in this case) is the "most important" window but there is no way (that I know of) to achieve that or to know in advance whether it is or is not....>>THAT<< being able to "pin" a particular window as "topmost" or "topmost until I change it" would solve the problem as far as I'm concerned. Yet I have never had to do anything like this before. Got something going on the right hand screen? Go to the left screen? Why should anything I do on the left influence what I am doing or what I am seeing on the right? It shouldn't. When I leave one screen, it should stay just how I left it.
Likewise, if I have a piece of stock tracking software running in a window on the right and Excel on the left side, when I click anywhere on Excel, the stock-tracking window goes away and reverts to some other window which (I guess) must be "more important". I would somehow need to be able to designate whatever window I am working on on the right screen as "most important"....this would fix the problem. But again, I have never had to do this before. Go work on the other screen, and the screen you left remains as it was. (How could you work if it was different??)
And by the way, it appears to work the other way (excel on right, stock-screener on left, or....WDOs Explorer on right, email on left.)
Frustrating and non-productive. It never did this in the year or more I've been using the same hardware. Dumb 5-year old hp desktop. I recently replaced my hard drive. I know I updated FF some months ago but this problem is much newer than "months ago"...it just started to occur about a week or so ago! It's quite the PITA.

I FIXED this problem: DEinstall Firefox, REinstall Firefox. Done.

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