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Before, I could always drag and drop images from firefox to the desktop, and now I can't! I've try without any module or to do a fresh installation, it doesn't change! I can still use right click save image as... But it's a very big loose of time for me!

When I try to drag and drop the image, when i reach the desktop, intead of a preview thumbnail of the image with the arrow of my mouse i have an interdiction sign as a cursor!

I have firefox 67.0b10 64bits, on windows 7 64bits install on a SSD!

I am using Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-bit (fully updated) and Firefox 68.0 64-bit.

The problem is that when I download any .zip archive and tell Firefox to "Open with... 7-Zip File Manager" (or with Windows Explorer), after the archive has finished downloading and opened in a 7-Zip window (or an Explorer window), I cannot drag-and-drop the file contained in the archive onto a Windows Explorer window or the desktop. No matter where I try to drag the file to, the Windows mouse cursor is always a "cancel" icon and won't let me drop it anywhere.

If I then close the archive window and reopen it from the download folder (C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Local\Temp), now I can drag-and-drop correctly.

I know that this is a problem with Firefox, because if I try the same operation with the same .zip archive using the current version of Tor Browser (8.5.4 32-bit (based on Mozilla Firefox 60.8.0esr)) or with Internet Explorer (11.0.9600.19399) I do not have this problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

saving webpages to folder or desktop stopped working it was always working like on this instruction https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/create-desktop-shortcut-website but when I'm not allowed to drop link. It is working on IE but stopped on Firefox