Don't see Safari extension in toolbar

richard.dudins

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For me it says, yeah, in safari extensions the zotero is enabled but i dont see it in toolbar.

richard.dudins

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I dont want to delete and re install zotero for like 4th time

dstillman

What version of Zotero, macOS, and Safari?

Can you provide a screenshot that shows the Zotero Connector enabled in Safari and missing from the toolbar?

otexplorer

Actually my connector icon, the Z, has started blinking in the toolbar, on and off and does not work when clicking, suddenly. I think it worked earlier w beta.4 below but cannot guarantee it ...

macOS 15.2
Safari 18.2
Zotero 7.1-beta.4
Zotero Connector 5.0.148

I toggled extension on and off, restarted Safari, Zotero, but still the same.

dstillman

If you open Terminal from Spotlight, paste in this command, and press Return, what's the output?

codesign -vvvv /Applications/Zotero.app/

otexplorer

Ok, I see a problem:
codesign -vvvv /Applications/Zotero.app/

/Applications/Zotero.app/: No such file or directory

I realise that I had Zotero 6 and Zotero 7 beta installed in parallell, but had actually renamed the latter application to "Zotero 7b". Now I renamed it to "Zotero" when closed, got a connection request to stream.zotero.org, it came with the following text:

"Warning
The program has been modified!
Previously, the program had the identifier “org.zotero.zotero”, but now it’s “org.zotero.zotero-beta”. This probably means that the developer renamed the program in an update. But please inspect the names! If a process has been replaced with a script interpreter such as Python, its rules may be hijacked by a script virus."

I allowed the connection and repeated:

codesign -vvvv /Applications/Zotero.app/

--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/liblgpllibs.dylib
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/liblgpllibs.dylib
--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libmozglue.dylib
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libmozglue.dylib
--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libfreebl3.dylib
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libfreebl3.dylib
--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libosclientcerts.dylib
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libosclientcerts.dylib
--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libsoftokn3.dylib
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libsoftokn3.dylib
--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/plugin-container.app
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/plugin-container.app
--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libmozavutil.dylib
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libmozavutil.dylib
--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/XUL
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/XUL
--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libipcclientcerts.dylib
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libipcclientcerts.dylib
--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libgkcodecs.dylib
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libgkcodecs.dylib
--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libnssckbi.dylib
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libnssckbi.dylib
--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libnss3.dylib
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libnss3.dylib
--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libmozavcodec.dylib
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/libmozavcodec.dylib
--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/PlugIns/ZoteroSafariExtension.appex
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/PlugIns/ZoteroSafariExtension.appex
--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/media-plugin-helper.app
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/media-plugin-helper.app
--prepared:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/updater.app
--validated:/Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/updater.app
/Applications/Zotero.app/: a sealed resource is missing or invalid
file missing: /Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/Frameworks/ChannelPrefs.framework

something missing, how do I fix this?
(the Safari plug-in still not working)

dstillman

Now I renamed it to "Zotero" when closed, got a connection request to stream.zotero.org, it came with the following text:

"Warning
The program has been modified!

That's just from your installation of Little Snitch.

file missing: /Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/Frameworks/ChannelPrefs.framework

You should delete the two versions you have and reinstall Zotero 7 from the download page or the beta from the beta page, depending on which one you want to be running. This wouldn't happen in a fresh installation. Not sure how you ended up with a missing file — would depend on the full history of that beta install — but unless it happens again, I wouldn't worry about it.

dstillman

It looks like this was due to a bug in the update process in the last few Mac betas, starting with the first 7.1 beta. It should be fixed going forward.