Weird Indesign CC font problem...

Here's another one:
It seems that I am having problems with selecting fonts. When I choose a font via the menu-dropdown at the upper screen, it regularly won't change the selected text. But doing so in the dedicated floating text-window, however, does. And here's the kicker: The next time it will be vice versa, that is the text-window won't work, but the menu will. No matter if OTF, TTF or T1-fonts. Most recent updates all around, even after resetting preferences.
I mean, it's not like that is the least bit annoying in what is basically a type-setting software. :-). Does anybody know a fix for this?
Carbon/Cocoa or not, this all feels rather like a step back from CS6. PS CC didn't run at all at first, but now that it does, it feels more or less bug-free, but in ID, the longer you work with it, the more weirdness you find that just wasn't there in the previous version.
Has anybody had this weird behaviour as well or is it my system?

@Peter – thank you for fixing the link, didn't know it was screwed up…
Yes. This is a very scary and dangerous feature. I'm all with Brigitta Kahn in the comments section at Indesignsecrets:
http://indesignsecrets.com/hover-scrolling-indesign-cc-feature-bug.php/comment-page-1#comm ent-622819
One of the things that makes me hesitate using InDesign CC at all.
And this feature is also in Illustrator CC and a few other CC products…
See Kelly Vaughn's comments on it:
http://indesignsecrets.com/hover-scrolling-indesign-cc-feature-bug.php/comment-page-1#comm ent-586900
Uwe
PS.: Hope to get my links right this time. (I was logged out inadverently during this session from the forums)

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