Sounds like issues 68, 123, 289 and friends,
http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=68&q=label:inspect

On Dec 15, 11:19 am, Slant <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pardon, no problem.
>
> Firefox 3.0.4
> Firebug 1.2.1
>
> As for what is wrong, I thought that would be a bit obvious from the
> screenshots, but no matter, I'll explain.  In the first screenshot,
> I'm using the Inspect feature to highlight the h3 element on the page
> which should draw a 1px wide bordered box around that element.
> Instead, it draws a 4px bordered box around it (with a black border
> around the border lines themselves!! - see the screenshot) with an
> offset (not actually surrounding the statically positioned element).
> If you do an inspect on any other page out there, it puts the box
> AROUND the element with a 1px-wide border.
>
> In the second screenshot, I'm simply mousing over the heiarchy list at
> the top of the Firebug pane (to the right of the Inspect and Edit
> buttons).  This should show the actual margin, padding, border and
> content area of the element in question.  Instead, it is showing this
> same layered setup but with seemingly no relation to the element in
> question!!  For instance, have a look at the greyish-purple layer.
> That should be the border.  There is zero border around that h3
> implied or otherwise.
>
> Does this help explain the issues at all?  Sorry about the confusion,
> and thank you for taking a moment to look at this.  I've provided the
> basic, basic HTML code that reproduces this.  Feel free see if you can
> indeed reproduce this if you have the versions of Firefox and Firebug
> that I mention above.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Dec 15, 10:51 am, John J Barton <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Which version of Firebug/Firefox?
>
> > Please explain what you think is wrong. I'm sure it's obvious to you,
> > but I don't know what to look for.
>
> > John.
>
> > On Dec 15, 9:29 am, Slant <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I've used Firebug for years now.  I've never seen the problem I just
> > > encountered today.
>
> > > Here are a few 
> > > screenshots:http://img.skitch.com/20081215-c7u76n1mdm7ai6kwqj5ejhd8d4.jpghttp://i...
>
> > > And here is the code I used to replicate it:http://gist.github.com/36014
>
> > > I have confirmed that this is not happening on other web pages.  It's
> > > almost like a rendering issue.  If I remove the lines affecting the
> > > border and margin of divs, then it starts to behave more normally.
> > > Sorta like my styles are affecting Firebug's elements!  It this a
> > > feature or a bug?!
>
> > > Thank you!!
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