Firefox 14.0.1 Won't Start in Full Screen Mode

Firefox 14.0.1 for Mac doesn't appear to retain the full screen mode setting on shut down. It starts in "non-full screen" mode on start.
I've tried safe mode startup, set to full and shut down, but it still doesn't keep the setting.
Help appreciated

This appears to be a bug in the new Mac full screen feature - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758249
So there doesn't appear to be a way to fix this at the moment other than waiting for this to get fixed in a future release.

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