Cannot pin sites to taskbar icon in Windows 7

This is a separate issue from pinning sites directly to the taskbar, which has yet to be implemented.
This may be the same as
* [https://support.mozilla.org/questions/773250 questions/773250] which got 40 people saying they have that issue, but only 1 reply that had nothing to do with the problem at hand, and
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621941 Bug 621941] that was filed 2 years ago as a follow-up of the above thread, but went nowhere.
Can you please tell me
# Can you reproduce the issue? Try to drag the following onto the Firefox taskbar icon: address bar site icon, .URL shortcut from the desktop, bookmark entry from the Bookmarks button menu. I get a crossed-out circle cursor indicating the action cannot be performed.
# Is this the same issue as the aforementioned bug report? If not, has this been reported as some other bug? Things can get a little confusing between pinning to the taskbar, pinning to the taskbar icon, and so on. I've already messed up by commenting on the wrong report once today, and I'd rather avoid doing that again.
If “Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and the taskbar” isn't enabled in the taskbar properties, then there are no frequent items listed in the Firefox jumplist, so that leaves no way to pin a site there.

Now it seems to have sorted itself out. The only things I've done is update nightly, set it as the default browser, and toggle the “Store and display recently opened items...” taskbar option on then back off.
I don't know what fixed it, but if I had to guess, I'd say it was setting as the default browser. Ever since bug 621873, it's been tied to pinning to the taskbar, and there's no shortage of bugs about that.
I'd prefer to just leave this thread open in case others want to comment. It doesn't seem right to mark this post as a solution, since I had the issue across many Firefox versions and I have no idea what fixed it in the end.
''djst wrote:''
You can try this by dragging the little globe icon next to the address bar in Firefox and drop it on the Firefox logo in the taskbar
When doing that, I (and apparently two others) were getting a crossed-out circle cursor, indicating the action cannot be performed.
''djst wrote:''
I don't think it's possible to drop a bookmark directly on the taskbar as its own shortcut -- the only way is to add it to that context menu for Firefox. Note that this is a Windows 7 limitation, not a Firefox limitation.
No, it is indeed a Firefox limitation, but it's unrelated to this thread. Read [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605222 the bug report you linked to] for the plan to implement it and [http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/products/ie-9/features/pinned-sites Pinned sites] for a description of the feature.

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