Messages App Window Display Issue

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Ahhh,
That or rather those betas.
Did you provide Feedback on the issue ?
I Shut Down my computer each night.
Last night I left two Finder windows open.
In addition the Login Item for my account mounts and opens two more windows for Drives on another computer. (there now being 4 windows open at the end of Start up today)
One of these was for the folder ~/Library/Messages.
This was behind the two fro the Drives.
I went to select the windows to close them but was not very accurate and the Messages window that was behind the two for the Drives did relocate itself to where I had drag across the Screen.
I was aware that I did not make a good distinction between a Left or Right Click although no Contextual Menu showed up.
I was aiming for the red button on the top window, missed and sort of slide off to one side, which seemed to think I was doing a Click and Drag.
I have tried to repeat this with no luck.
Whilst I might have a quirky type similar issue in the Finder I have no hint of the issue in Messages.
It might be interesting if similar apps have the same issues.
FaceTime uses the IMAgent and the SOAgent helper apps along with Messages.
The Game Center and the above apps can all have login issues which suggests links with each other. However this tends not to be an multiple window app.
A Browser could work as a Multiple window app.
Many graphic apps work with Multiple windows.
There are areas that people could try out in these respects.
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