Mouse has focus but not keyboard

Every once in a while I will be in an application - at least my mouse works in that application, but my keyboard doesn't appear to be working. Then I look at the title bar, and even though my mouse is making my Firefox or iTunes scroll like normal - the title bar says I'm running Mail.
So I tab over to the application my mouse thinks I am in, and now my keyboard and mouse are using the same application.
This happens maybe once a week or so, and I haven't been able to do it on command.
Is this a known issue?

Howard Brazee wrote:
Every once in a while I will be in an application - at least my mouse works in that application, but my keyboard doesn't appear to be working. Then I look at the title bar, and even though my mouse is making my Firefox or iTunes scroll like normal - the title bar says I'm running Mail.
So I tab over to the application my mouse thinks I am in, and now my keyboard and mouse are using the same application.
This happens maybe once a week or so, and I haven't been able to do it on command.
Is this a known issue?
On my MacBook I can use the trackpad to scroll (with two finders) a window of an application that's not "in front". I consider the ability to scroll a window that doesn't have "the focus" to be a feature, not a bug. If you want to give the window of that other application the focus, just click in it.

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