[MLZ] Word for Windows Integration error on Firefox startup

Bruce Rusk · June 30, 2015

The Word for Windows Integration plug-in seems to have updated itself, and is now producing a modal error dialog every time Firefox starts up:

Zotero Word for Windows Integration 3.1.20 requires Zotero 4.0.27.SOURCE or later to run. Please download the latest version of Zotero from zotero.org

The plug-in does seem to still be working from within Word 2013, but the dialog every time the browser starts up is annoying. I am using the latest version of Multilingual Zotero. Any way to disable this message (or have the integration plug-in recognize MLZ versions)?

adamsmith · June 30, 2015

Roll back the updated Word add-on by installing the 3.1.19 version from
https://download.zotero.org/integration/Zotero-WinWord-Plugin-3.1.19.xpi

Then disable automatic updating for that add-on in the add-on settings in Firefox.

Frank will let you know when MLZ is aligned with the 4.0.27 version of Zotero again and you're save to install the 3.1.20 add-on.

Bruce Rusk · June 30, 2015

Thanks. I'll do that.

adamsmith · June 30, 2015

you'll also want to temporary disable Firefox auto-update. I don't think MLZ (and definitely not the old Word add-on) will work with Firefox 39, released today.

fbennett · July 1, 2015

Thanks for this news. I didn't know that there would be breakage in the plugin - sorry for the inconvenience.

The solution will be to move from MLZ to Juris-M, since they have the same functionality, and I don't have time to maintain both.

A manual install will be necessary. Auto-updates won't work, because Juris-M (correctly) now uses a different ID from official Zotero/MLZ, and so appears to Firefox as a completely different product. To prompt users who may have MLZ installed, but aren't following the forums, I will issue an end-of-life update for MLZ that displays a popup window with upgrade instructions. Crude, but effective.