View online opens wrong profile of Firefox

Artim96 · 2025-08-07T08:28:03+00:00

I have a very strange issue when I'm clicking "view online" in the URL tag of a source. It opens the right browser, but for some reason it won't open with the profile it would when opening Firefox any other way, be it from the application shortcut or from a Link in another program. Where can I find what Zotero does to open the link and potentially change that?

I'm on Zotero 7.0.22 on Debian 13

poettli · 2025-08-07T08:32:34+00:00

Maybe https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/112945/zotero-7-beta-invoking-firefox-over-zotero-uses-non-default-profile

Artim96 · 2025-08-07T10:19:54+00:00

Thanks, https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/460563/#Comment_460563 helped. Quite odd what Zotero does here, as they would just have to use xdg-open, which they allegedly do but evidently don't (at least not without setting weird variables).

Artim96 · 2025-08-07T10:26:44+00:00

Sadly I only found the Zotero 8 beta after applying the fix, but if anyone else finds this issue, the Betas can be found here: https://www.zotero.org/support/beta_builds