Upgrade StorageFirefox address/search bar now allows direct search of Zotero web library from a browser page
Firefox v140 made it easier to add custom search engines to its address/search bar. When you open a new FF tab, there is a dropdown menu there where you can select the engine you want. You can also use @ to select an engine.
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/140.0/releasenotes/
You can add search sites to the default engines including sites like ebay, youtube, wayback, github, etc, in Firefox settings (about:preferences#search).
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox
This opens up the possibility to search your Zotero web library more efficiently for articles you found via Firefox. It goes some of the way to addressing a common problem, that is, easily identifying if an article that you have just found is in fact already in your library.*
To add Zotero search to your FF search engines, you make two separate additions in FF Settings, to support the two available modes of web library search: Title/Creator/Year, and Title/Creator/Year + Full-text Content ...
https://www.zotero.org/yourZoteroaccountname/search/%s/titleCreatorYear
https://www.zotero.org/yourZoteroaccountname/search/%s/everything
(you can add more options if you want, for example to search particular collections)
Once set up, you would copy a paper's title, open a new FF tab, select Zotero search in the dropdown, paste in the title, then hit enter for it to switch to your web library and show you the result.
But the real efficiency bump comes with a FF extension called Right Click Search. Once an article's title text (or anything else you want to search for) is selected in your browser, you just right-click to select the Zotero search.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/right-click-sea1arch/
* the Zoplicate plugin also addresses this, in a different way, by intercepting a duplicate after it has been downloaded, as it is about to be added to your library in the desktop app.
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/140.0/releasenotes/
You can add search sites to the default engines including sites like ebay, youtube, wayback, github, etc, in Firefox settings (about:preferences#search).
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox
This opens up the possibility to search your Zotero web library more efficiently for articles you found via Firefox. It goes some of the way to addressing a common problem, that is, easily identifying if an article that you have just found is in fact already in your library.*
To add Zotero search to your FF search engines, you make two separate additions in FF Settings, to support the two available modes of web library search: Title/Creator/Year, and Title/Creator/Year + Full-text Content ...
https://www.zotero.org/yourZoteroaccountname/search/%s/titleCreatorYear
https://www.zotero.org/yourZoteroaccountname/search/%s/everything
(you can add more options if you want, for example to search particular collections)
Once set up, you would copy a paper's title, open a new FF tab, select Zotero search in the dropdown, paste in the title, then hit enter for it to switch to your web library and show you the result.
But the real efficiency bump comes with a FF extension called Right Click Search. Once an article's title text (or anything else you want to search for) is selected in your browser, you just right-click to select the Zotero search.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/right-click-sea1arch/
* the Zoplicate plugin also addresses this, in a different way, by intercepting a duplicate after it has been downloaded, as it is about to be added to your library in the desktop app.
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aborelInteresting news, thanks!