Bookmark toolbar

To: FireFox development team :)
Will You ever make bookmark toolbar work right? Have You ever tried to drag n drop tab or link you want to bookmark that way? Have you ever tried to change location of your bookmark (in bookmark toolbar) from on folder to another? (Hint: Awful experience!)
I'm organizing my bookmarks ONLY in bookmark toolbar form and I have made 8 main folders, containing many bookmarks, but also many sub-folders and these sub-folders contain many bookmarks and sub-folders... It is my MAIN point in Firefox browser, and part I use the most!
But dragging and dropping items and changing places is sometimes (usually) is pain in the *ss. I hover over the bookmark toolbar folder and wait 'till it opens, find the next one, miss one pixel, and after FRACTION of the second is all gone, the subfolder menu closes, main folder closes... again! Sometimes I don't even miss, it does on it's own with "prediction" of the place where I'll put the bookmark item, and it that is somewhere in the upper level of bookmark bar folder structure, it'll close the current subfolders and go back to the place where it snapped/"predicted".
Not sure if I wrote this in understandable enough way, but I hope You get the point... if not, please feel free to ask for clarification... or just try using bookmark toolbar yourselves. :)
Thanks,
Marko
P.S.
Oh, try dragging a bookmark item diagonally, with a SPLIT second dragging over an area that is not bookmark folder area... good luck with that! :) It just closes it and you have to do folder-subfolder navigating again (WHILE holding down mouse button with item holding it).
This just isn't good user experience and bookmark toolbar isn't user friendly! It's painful.

I have seen the same issue when I get down to the 4th or 5th tier of sub-folders in the Bookmarks Toolbar Items.
IMO, you are overloading the Bookmarks Toolbar by using it in that manner. Multiple tiers of sub-folders in the Bookmarks Toolbar wasn't a planned action.
One potential solution is to re-arrange those bookmarks while in the "Library" window rather than from the Toolbar. Drag a bookmark into a different folder, and then open the new folder and place the bookmark where you want it placed.
Or do the 'moves' in the Bookmarks Sidebar.
Neither the Library or the Sidebar will "snap closed" if you miss your mark.

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== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

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