issue878 later comment leading with Stop pesky phantom windows from appearing.

The nodejs and python processes are automatically cleaned up when you
close fontforge. A crash during character manipulation was also fixed.

The "open" and "node" paths on OSX are to be tested once I get an osx
build going again.
cleanup
Merge pull request #1636 from monkeyiq/2014/aug/878v1

 issue878 later comment leading with Stop pesky phantom windows from appearing.