Odd behavior in Firefox Developer Edition, the "inspect Element" context menu option

Question

I'm super stoked about the Firefox Developer Edition! I am using it now and like it. But there is a behavior in the contextual menu that's really bugging me.

In "stable" Firefox, when I right click on an item and hit the "Inspect element" option, the inspector comes up and the DOM tree is open to the item that the cursor was over.

In Developer Edition (the Aurora track) when I do the above action it only opens the DOM tree to "body". Is this happening to anyone else? And is there an option that I have missed that will fix this?

Edit 11/13/2014 9:01 am

I had a bit of :facepalm: moment when I realized I could hit the icon at the far left of the tool bar in the inspector, which turns on "Select by clicking". Which helps, but it still doesn't quite address my issue/question about using the super handy right click "Inspect Element" issue.

Answer 1

This is because there is a bug which is noted here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1091706 - Firefox team is very close to an update that fixes the problem, but until then you can use the following workaround to resolve (seen in update 2)

Update 3:

Apparently, the bug fix mentioned in this answer is really a workaround - Firefox team is expected to patch their next update that will fix this problem automatically without the need to use the aforementioned work around - stay tuned!

Update 2:

I was able to fix on Win7x64 by doing Help - TroubleShooting - refresh - Here are the steps:

1. Right click on top bar(where tabs are but not on a tab), select Menu Bar
2. Click on Help > Troubleshooting Information
3. Click on Refresh Firefox Developer Edition...

4. Confirm the refresh, then reload firefox. You should be good to go!

Note: You should do the refresh above instead of Uninstalling / Re-installing Firefox as that did not appear to work for me, I assume because the bug is stored in Roaming/Appdata or something similar, which does not get removed when uninstalling firefox. The refresh trick mentioned above worked great!

Update

This just in! THere are reports of individuals stating their firefox is working properly. According to the link mentioned above, you may be able to resolve the issue by resetting / resyncing your ff account.

This might explain why it works on my mac. Going to see about windows tomorrow.