Firefox won't create bookmarks

I have the latest version of Mavericks installed on my 2013 13" MacBook Air and also the latest version of Firefox. For some reason unknow to me Firefox will not create bookmarks either when I use command d or when I access the bookmarks menu and try and manually enter a bookmark. Usually a command d will bring up a popout that asks me where I would like to create the bookmark and I can choose which folder, menu, toolbar, etc. That is not happening. Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?

This is probably more a Firefox issue than an OS X issue. Maybe you should post this question in the Mozilla forums...
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/get-community-support

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Application Basics
Name: Firefox
Version: 33.0
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Multiprocess Windows: 0/1
Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days
All Crash Reports
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Name: Mint Search Enhancer
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ID: [email protected]
Name: Stylish
Version: 1.0.7
Enabled: true
ID: {46551EC9-40F0-4e47-8E18-8E5CF550CFB8}
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Adapter Description: X.Org -- Gallium 0.4 on AMD ARUBA
Device ID: Gallium 0.4 on AMD ARUBA
Driver Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3
GPU Accelerated Windows: 0/1 Basic
Vendor ID: X.Org
WebGL Renderer: X.Org -- Gallium 0.4 on AMD ARUBA
windowLayerManagerRemote: false
AzureCanvasBackend: cairo
AzureContentBackend: cairo
AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: none
AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0
Important Modified Preferences
browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false
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