Brush Tool / Spot Healing unresponsive with PS CC 2014 on Yosemite!

Hi community,
I'm running CC2014 on OS Yosemite but had the same problem on Mavericks....
Whenever I've used the brush tool and move the circle back over the toolbar to select a different tool, the circle does not change back
into the arrow unless I click again on a tool or another space outside the picture.
Similar with the healing stamp. I click on the spot I want to fix but the actually change in the picture does not happen unless I again click
on a different tool or any other area outside the photo.
Any suggestions?
Thanks a million!

Thanks for your answer PK. I really expected this to work as an ok workaround.... Now I've found that I cannot even cmd+tab back into CC.
Let's say I tab out into Safari. I get the Safari window on top of CC. I tab back to CC and nothing happens.
So I have to click back into the CC window to bring it back.
Does anyone know if that is a bug that Adobe are looking into?

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I have spent a week trying to get this to work and now it just started working for all images. I have NO idea why.
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3. clean install of CC Photoshop 2014 (2x)
4. installed update (took dozens of tries before this actually downloaded and installed successfully unfortunately)
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6. waited, waited and waited.. went about my other work and forgot about it and then after about 5 minutes the crop box appeared. I was able to adjust it too.
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PSE 9 crashes when I use the Spot Healing Brush tool

When I use the Spot Healing Brush tool PSE9 crashs completly. Is it a bug? In the older version 8 I had no problem.
I use WIN XP SP2, Intel Pentium 4, 3 Ghz, GPU: NVIDIA Geforce FX 5700, DirectX 9.0c 4.09.00.0904.
I tried it also on another PC with WIN7 and it caused the same problem.
Thanks for any adivse

I know this post doesn't really help you guys, but I'm also using PSE9 on a Win7 Intel Quad Core Dell computer and the spot healing brush works fine. I only offer this post to indicate that it apparently is not a universal bug in PSE9. Perhaps an Adobe expert can jump in here and help. I can only offer that in Preferences I do have the RAM dialed up to 80%, but I don't think this is related to your problem.

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