--- a/devtools/client/preferences/devtools.js
+++ b/devtools/client/preferences/devtools.js
@@ -320,18 +320,19 @@ pref("devtools.editor.autocomplete", tru
 // Enable the Font Inspector
 pref("devtools.fontinspector.enabled", true);
 
 // Pref to store the browser version at the time of a telemetry ping for an
 // opened developer tool. This allows us to ping telemetry just once per browser
 // version for each user.
 pref("devtools.telemetry.tools.opened.version", "{}");
 
-// Enable the JSON View tool (an inspector for application/json documents)
-#ifdef MOZ_DEV_EDITION
-  pref("devtools.jsonview.enabled", true);
+// Enable the JSON View tool (an inspector for application/json documents) on
+// Nightly and Dev. Edition.
+#ifdef RELEASE_BUILD
+pref("devtools.jsonview.enabled", false);
 #else
-  pref("devtools.jsonview.enabled", false);
+pref("devtools.jsonview.enabled", true);
 #endif
 
 // Disable the HTML responsive design tool by default.  Currently disabled until
 // ready to replace the legacy XUL version.
 pref("devtools.responsive.html.enabled", false);