Firebug: does the toggle inspect mode shortcut work for you?

I love Firebug, but I get annoyed by the fact that when using "inspect mode" I cannot (i) place the mouse over the element I am interested in and then (i开发者_如何学Goi) move the mouse to the Firebug pane without Firebug tracking my mouse movements while on my way there. What happens is that, between the moment I place my mouse over the element of interest to me and the moment I get my mouse onto the Firebug pane, Firebug starts displaying the HTML for the elements over which my mouse moves.

I was happy to find in the documentation that one can toggle the inspect mode on/off by pressing (http://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Keyboard_and_Mouse_Shortcuts), but this does not work for me on Linux with Firefox 3.5.

Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding the purpose of this keybinding?

I am sure others have struggled with this issue. Is there another way to deal with this annoyance?

To test, I opened Firebug, then typed a letter in the "Add a tag to ignore" box here on stack overflow. When the autocomplete appeared, I hovered over an autocomplete suggestion, and typed ctrl-shift-c, which did indeed inspect the <li> element for me. This is FF 3.5.5, Firebug 1.4.5.

It occurs to me that you may have ctrl-shift-c bound to something in your X Windows configuration. Worth checking.

Mystery solved: this was happening because I had another Firefox extension (Web Developer) installed, which by default binds Control-Shift-C to displaying the CSS for a page. I guess these two amazing extensions must be a frequent combination on many peoples FF setup, so perhaps the devs could agree on non-overlapping default keyboard shortcuts!

Either the Web Developer addon has control of the shortcut, or the height of the Firebug is reduced to appear almost invisible, so expand the UI from the bottom.