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Adding a site to the top sites overview does not work by dragging bookmarks to the new tab page. The dragging does not work at all. How to resolve this??

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Adding a site to the top sites overview does not work by dragging bookmarks to the new tab page. The dragging does not work at all. How to resolve this?? I try, but either nothing is added or the bookmarked page opens as usual.

Adding a site to the top sites overview does not work by dragging bookmarks to the new tab page. The dragging does not work at all. How to resolve this?? I try, but either nothing is added or the bookmarked page opens as usual.

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).


Try to remove the Firefox plist file (org.mozilla.firefox.plist).

Go to "~/Library/Preferences" and remove the plist file for Firefox (org.mozilla.firefox.plist)

Try to repair the disk permissions: