Windows 10: Browsers no longer work properly...timeframe seems related to large cummulative Windows updates

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  1. Browsers no longer work properly...timeframe seems related to large cummulative Windows updates


    Strange little problem has started recently and am beginningto wonder if the common denominator may be related to fairly recent large Microsoft upgrades.

    I’ve used IBM, then Lenovo ThinkPad’s with Windows about everyday since the mid 90’s.
    And used icons pinned onto the task-bars of those ThinkPads since the beginning,including browsers like Internet Explorer, Chrome, FireFox, etc.

    I keep ThinkPad Hardware, Firmware, & Software updatescurrent, Norton & Malwarebytes running all the time, etc. Plus, I’ve alwaysset up / used my PCs with ‘double-clicking’.


    A few weeks ago I noticed when I double-clicked the Firefoxicon on the task-bar like I’ve done untold thousands of time, the browser windowwould open with the cursor blinking in the search box like always, but thesearch box would no longer just automatically allow me to start typing.
    I had to double-click in it again to make it come alive so to speak, then I couldtype.
    Oddly, if I “single-clicked” the browser task-bar icon…which I never do…thebrowser search box allowed typing immediately like it should.


    So then I pinned Internet Explorer, then Chrome icons to thetask-bar and they failed the same way as the Firefox browser, so it’s not a specificbrowser problem.


    NOTE 1:
    All other non-browser task bar icons that I double-click to launch theirfunction, all work normally.
    Only the browsers fail to function properly withdouble-clicking their task-bar icons.
    there are no other typing / mouse click related problems with anything elsewhat-so-ever


    NOTE 2:
    If I download and put a shortcut for any of those browsers right on the desktopand double-click them there, they each open normally and typing is allowed immediatelyas it normally should.

    NOTE 3:
    FWIW, I can also launch a browser from the task-bar icon, then go to the upper left corner ofthe screen and click the “Reload The Page” symbol…and that also then allowstyping in the search box normally.


    Summary to the best of my knowledge:
    Problem is limited to browsers, with multiple browsers failing / acting the same way.

    If I double-click launch any browser from its task-bar icon,I cannot start typing immediately:
    I have to double-click in the search-box then it’ll let me start typing;
    Or I can go up and click the “Reload The Page” icon and then start typing;

    PS: and I can "single click" the task-bar icon which I never do and thebrowser opens and works normally

    Problem started within the past couple months on twodifferent ThinkPad’s…a perfectly running 3 year old P51 and a fairly new P52 ThinkPad.


    The main thing I think of at this point is there’s a commondenominator that happened in the past couple months...possibly the fairly recent largewindows cumulative updates that have come out.


    Hoping the Microsoft brain trust here might have some experience/ knowledge about this strange multiple browser related problem...thanks in advance.

    :)
     
    earlyvirginia, Feb 6, 2021
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