Open Office Plug-in Not Working

wildbill
I'm using a Mac with OS X 10.6.7, Firefox 3.6.16, and just upgraded to OpenOffice plug-in 3.5a1. I also have a Zotero 2.1.1 plug-in. After the upgrade, I became unable to insert citations into any document. I get this error message:

'[JavaScript Error: "_lastDataListener is undefined" {file: "file:///Users/Jim/Library/Application%20Support/Firefox/Profiles/vsy6l0uy.default/extensions/zoteroOpenOfficeIntegration@zotero.org/components/zoteroOpenOfficeIntegration.js" line: 194}]' when calling method: [zoteroIntegrationApplication::getActiveDocument]

Can somebody help me fix this? I'm in big trouble right now-- can't work at all.

Thanks.
  • fbennett
    edited March 27, 2011
    I had this as well. In my case, the ownership of the hidden directory ~/.openoffice.org was root:root (you can check from a terminal with the command "ls -ld ~/.openoffice.org"). Changing the permissions of the entire directory recursively to myself seemed to clear it and get the plugin working happily; I haven't seen the error since.
  • wildbill
    Thanks. I'm just not savvy enough to "change the entire directory recursively to myself." I have no clue what that means.
  • fbennett
    edited March 27, 2011
    If you can open a terminal, type "ls -ld ~/.openoffice.org" (without the quotes), hit enter, and see what the result is. With that information, we'll know if your problem is the same as mine.
  • wildbill
    I see what you mean, but you know what? In the meantime, I upgraded to OpenOffice 3.3 and reinstalled the OpenOffice plug-in in Firefox and voila! The plug-in is back and working. I'm the kind of person who likes to know why things happen, I'm baffled. I did try to reinstall the plug-in in the old version of OpenOffice, but that was a failure. Maybe the old version got broken somehow. In any event, thank you so much for trying to help.
  • bjs
    In my case, the problem with the OpenOffice Plugin for Zotero 2.1, Version 3.5a1 was not to solve!

    Windows XP, Firefox 3.6.16, Open Office 3.2.1 or 3.3, Zotero for Mozilla 2.1

    I changed the OpenOffice path manually, I checked the position of the Zotero_OpenOffice_Integration.oxt file (which was correct), I installed OpenOffice 3.3 - nothing worked. This newly added installation process is still buggy.

    Now I installed the older OpenOffice plugin with OO3.3:

    OpenOffice Plugin for Zotero 2.1, Version 3.1b1

    and everything works fine again!

    P.S.: I use Zotero since ca. one month and it is really great!!!

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