Red Hat Topics - Re: Drag and drop broken in Firefox and Thunderbird

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Re: Drag and drop broken in Firefox and Thunderbird - SOLUTION

Fred

2007-02-22, 7:11 pm

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:12:28 -0500, Fred wrote:

> Under Fedora Core 6 using Firefox 1.5.0.9 and Thunderbird
> 1.5.0.9, I can no longer drag and drop bookmarks. I browse
> to a web site, then press Ctrl-B to display the bookmarks
> on the left side of the screen. Then I click on the icon
> in the URL bar on the left (Where you type URL's) and drag
> it to the bookmarks. The mouse pointer turns into a hand,
> then the little cross with a paper behind it, but when I hover
> over the bookmarks, drag and drop mouse pointer disappears,
> and the bookmark is not there. I'm using XFCE for a desktop,
> but I get the same behavior under KDE. Anyone else seen this
> behavior?
>
>
> -Thanks

I upgraded from 1.5.0.9-1 to 1.5.0.9-3. Drag and drop
is now working again.