Comment 15 for bug 1538111

GNOME Shell does not use metacity... So it might be different bug, or "shared" bug in both - metacity and mutter. Tried to run GNOME Shell session in virtual box, tried few times to open & close midori & synaptic, but for me everything works... :(

Cui, if bug is only with compositing manager then you could try to revert this commit:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/metacity/commit/?id=a9f28dbc26f5211ef08889109db3dc8c7ba76aca
(it might introduce crashes...)