modal annoyance

[gusl]

At home, I use a laptop with an external monitor. A very common annoyance I have with Firefox is that when I unplug my machine, and try to add an attachment on GMail, the modal dialog pops up, but it's completely unreachable and now so is the rest of Firefox. I figured out that I can get back to Firefox by hitting ESC... but still, I can't add attachments until I plug into an external monitor again. (Restarting Firefox doesn't help)

A tangentially related annoyance, ubiquitous in Windows applications, is that they don't have a text interface for entering paths... so even when I have the path in the copy/paste buffer, I need to go click-click-click...