When a user disables tabledrag, a cookie is set, disabling tabledrag on every page on the site. For someone who was just playing with that link to see what it did (most common use case) this creates a less-than-ideal experience and bad impression of the software.

What we really need instead of a cookie is a setting. People who want tabledrag disabled permanently should use the setting. People who need to disable it temporarily will use the link.
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Hi, so working through Amilenkov's useful suggestions in turn unpublished? - I can see the page itself when not logged in. I did then edit and added a menu link from the page...
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Amilenkov's suggestions are spot on. As for the greyed out Menu module, that's because there must be another module that depends on Menu. Core will gray out modules that cannot be disabled (e.g...
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Welcome to the Backdrop community! My first suspicion would be access to the destination page. Backdrop checks access when building the menu, so a link can be enabled but still be hidden...
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