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Can't do any drag and drop in Firefox 12 for Mac OS X 10.6.8

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avamk
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I am running Firefox 12 in Mac OS X 10.6.8, and have the following strange problem.

When I try to customise the toolbar, I am unable to drag and drop any buttons onto it! I am see the hand icon, but when I click and drag an item nothing happens.

Even stranger is the fact that I also can't drag and drop images from Firefox into Finder!

Are these two problems related somehow?

Hope someone can help with this.

I am running Firefox 12 in Mac OS X 10.6.8, and have the following strange problem. When I try to customise the toolbar, I am unable to drag and drop any buttons onto it! I am see the hand icon, but when I click and drag an item nothing happens. Even stranger is the fact that I also can't drag and drop images from Firefox into Finder! Are these two problems related somehow? Hope someone can help with this.

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this problem is caused by the torbutton extension you have installed. you'll have uninstall it in the addons-manager because it is no longer maintained by the developers - you'd have to switch to the tor browser bundle, see: https://www.torproject.org/torbutton

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philipp
philipp
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this problem is caused by the torbutton extension you have installed. you'll have uninstall it in the addons-manager because it is no longer maintained by the developers - you'd have to switch to the tor browser bundle, see: https://www.torproject.org/torbutton

avamk
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Drag and drop works now after I disabled torbutton! I've replaced it with FoxyProxy Basic which works fine. Thank you for your quick response!

perspectoff
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I have read that there are about 5 or 6 other add-ons that also inhibit Drag and Drop functionality, not just the Torbutton add-on. The list is somewhere in the main Firefox support section (but it's tough to find the answer there twice).

The generic add-on troubleshooting page is at:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting-extensions-themes#w_disable-all-extensions