Clicking through windows/apps

Hi forums,
I've upgraded to Mav on my four-year-old Macbook Pro 15" and yeah, some things are slow but I have a much more egregious problem: - sometimes (and by no means as rarely as I'd like) the system completely looses track of which windows are in front, active, clicked-on etc.
The issue usually manifests as I cmd-tab between open programs - suddenly, even though I've, say, tabbed over to Safari, the latest Finder window is still hovering in front. But it's inactive, so trying to click it means I click right through, hitting something behind it, usually the visible one - but not always, for example if what's behind is an application with multiple open windows, I may find the click was registered in a window down the stack somewhere.
At this point I feel the whole thing descends into a sort-of scooby-doo-esqe madness; I am unable to regain control of which app/window is in front, and clicking and/or tab'ing seems to just bring forward a cascade of random objects from the various interfaces currently open... I actually have no remedy at this time, except to close all windows, sometimes even restart Finder (or the whole machine) - I wonder, have anyone else had this kind of thing happen, and if so, found a way to fix it?

Does Alt-Tab work? Maybe your terminal is holding focus instead of releasing it when you click outside onto chrome.

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