(Zotero-Firefox) Add-ons for Standalone

maxixam

The SA is great! Love it! The question is:
Is there a way to use the firefox-add-ons in the Standalone Zotero??
If not will it be implemented?
(Especially LyZ and Zot2Bib would be the two add-ons that I'd love to have.)

I am aware that there was an old thread here: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/16702/addonsplugins/#Item_0 -but it is specific on one add-on.
Cheers Maxixam

adamsmith

plugins can be used with SA, but the plugin developers will probably need to make some (I understand relatively minor) changes for compatibility.
Installation instructions are, e.g. here:
http://www.columbia.edu/~jpl2136/zotfile.html#install
(this one for Zotfile, but the instructions are the same). Developers can find existing threads with documentation on the dev list.

mronkko

If you want to fix a plugin yourself, for most of the cases the only thing you need to do is to unzip the xpi file, then modify install.rdf and add the following

<!-- Support for Zotero Standalone -->

<em:targetApplication>
<Description>
<em:id>zotero@chnm.gmu.edu</em:id>
<em:minVersion>3.0b1</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>3.*</em:maxVersion>
</Description>
</em:targetApplication>

after a similar entry for firefox. Then update the install.rdf in the zip file by re-adding it.

This should do the trick for most of the extensions that have been updated at least fairly recently.