361027 - drag and drop in bookmarks toolbar no longer works since 2.0 on OS X

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Rasmus Schultz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: all OS X versions after 2.0

like the headline says - since upgrading Firefox to 2.0, there is no longer any way to drag-and-drop organize the bookmarks directly in the bookmarks-toolbar.

it is still possible to arrange bookmarks via the sidebar.

I had Firefox 1.5 installations on both Windows and OS X, and upgraded both to version 2.0, and they work as follows:

Firefox 1.5 on Windows: WORKS
Firefox 2.0 on Windows: WORKS
Firefox 1.5 on OS X: WORKS
Firefox 2.0 on OS X: DOESN'T WORK

I first upgraded Firefox on OS X, and wondered why drag and drop in the bookmarks toolbar no longer worked. I assumed it was a feature that hadn't been built into 2.0 yet, so I upgraded Firefox on Windows to see, but it works fine on Windows.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Switch on the bookmarks toolbar.
2. Try to drag and drop a bookmark - you can't.
3. Pull hair in frustration.

Actual Results:  
Instead of dragging and dropping, when you release the mouse button after dragging, it just registers as a click on whatever bookmark the mouse is over at that time.

Expected Results:  
I was expecting drag and drop to work.

Default theme, latest OS X version, several Firefox upgrades (just upgraded two days ago).

Comment 1

[Philip flip Kromer]

I also was unpleasantly surprised to learn that the bookmarks toolbar doesn't work under OS-X.  In windows, when I drag a URL from the address bar to the toolbar, the submenus roll out and show a spot where the new bookmark will land.  

Is this behavior and the rearrange-bookmarks-within-menu behavior missing, or is it controlled by a prefs setting?

Comment 2

[Philip flip Kromer]

This bug has been reported elsewhere as http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=371171.

This is possibly related to bug <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113179">113179</a>.  Bug <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83214">83214</a> says that you should be able to hold a hotkey to rearrange personal toolbar links and folders -- you cannot do so on OSX.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

this should be WFM in 3.x, also for folders on 3.1.x