Better BibTeX startup failed

alessabuerkle · 2026-02-16T14:41:18+00:00

Hi, I am using Zotero (version 7.0.32) together with Obsidian (Zotero Integration and Citation Plugins), and it was running smoothly until today. Now, my Obsidian is not communicating with Zotero anymore and when starting Zotero I get the following notification:

"Better BibTeX startup failed
Error: Failed to load resource://zotero/config.mjs
@jar:file:///Users/....."

I saw that Better BibTeX was last updated today, so it must be connected to the update.

Could anyone help me with this issue? Thanks in advance.

dstillman · 2026-02-16T14:41:26+00:00

For problems with a plugin, you'll need to contact the plugin developer.

poettli · 2026-02-16T14:53:24+00:00

(Already reported: https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/issues/3406)

ptkuokkanen · 2026-02-17T16:54:29+00:00

I had the same issue, after updating Zotero to 8.0 better BibTeX runs again (note that the citation key field is no more the top-most field in the article info - this confused me after the re-start). I don't have a solution though if you don't want to update your Zotero.