Sometimes I need to inspect elements that are only showing up on a page if you put mouse over some area. The problem is that if you start moving mouse towards firebug consol
While selecting :hover in the CSS menu might be nice if you only want to inspect some CSS code, it doesn't work if whatever you want to inspect is changed using JavaScript.
A simple hack in this case is to open Firebug in a different window (top right corner of the Firebug bar) than move your mouse at the desired location and drag and drop something from there out of the browser window. Now you can inspect whatever in the Firebug window. Just don't move your mouse back into the browser window.