Zotero beta 101 breaks Safari Connector in Mac Catalina

jwilentz

Had been working fine in the betas before this but now get the flicker and no Zotero. Sad Trombone! I know why not fork out another thousand for a new Mac but this one is working fine with new super fast SSD a few years ago and I'd like to stick with it. Reinstalled older version Zotero from Time Machine backup and all is well. Any way I can stop Z from updating itself??

jwilentz

Now working fine with Z Mac 7.0.0-beta.91+3c6625f3c Afraid Z will auto-update and I will lose Safari function.

jwilentz

Help me Rhonda, help, help me Rhonda, help me Rhonda help help me Rhonda Help me Rhonda, help me get her out of my mind.

dstillman

It's just this:

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/safari_compatibility#can_t_see_the_save_button_save_button_flickering

It has nothing to do with any specific version of Zotero, and you should absolutely not stay on an outdated beta version.

jwilentz

I tried that a few times and just didn't work. Can try it again.

jwilentz

Just did it again: Restarted in Safe mode, deleted Zotero b91, emptied it out of trash. Restarted in safe mode. reinstalled b101(7.0.0-beta.101+220bb4383) and sad trombone again Z symbol flickered and then gone and no Zotero connector for Safari. And no I can't use Chrome because I have so many saved bookmarks in Safari and I like the whole system. Any way you can suggest (other than by going back to b91) to make this work? I tried using the Safari Developer pane to "allow unsigned extensions," but that had no effect either.

dstillman

Sorry, I missed that you were using Catalina. There was indeed a change that would've caused the extension not to load on old macOS versions. This should be fixed now in beta 102. Thanks for letting us know.

jwilentz

Great. and thanks for taking pity on those of us who have carefully upgraded the bits and pieces of our somewhat old Macs without feeding Apple!