My finger never seemed long enough to release the working parts with the mag removed on the Browning. Never misfired though.
Remove magazine, work slide, ensure chamber is empty. With slide forward insert [empty] magazine, operate trigger whilst retaining control of hammer fall *. Remove magazine.
I was lucky [and popular] as my middle finger is long enough to disengage the magazine safety.
At one stage I owned 3 Brownings, typically fired 5,000 p/a in competition with the No 1 pistol, and had just one stoppage [a misfeed] in about 15 years of top-level UK competition.
However ... I have gone "Guns and Ammo" ... please excuse me.
* To avoid uninhibited impact on firing pin retaining plate, which will otherwise split in time.