To beta, or not to beta

SimonCropper

Hi Guys,

I am currently running WinXP Pro SP3, OO 3.01, Firefox 3.08 and Zotero 1.09.

I have an extensive library and use it to augment technical reports.

I have teetered on upgrading to Zotero 1.5 for several months now but find I still have concerns that there will be problems upgrading or running the 'beta' version.

I do not necessarily need sync, as I only have one main machine.

I thought it might be useful to ask you what issues you encountered upgrading, if any, or is the 'beta' tag primarily related to the sync capability and I am missing a wide variety of functional improvements (e.g. style manger) by not upgrading.

Simon

adamsmith

no (non-sync related) issues whatsoever after upgrade.
1.5b2 generally works more smoothly for me (especially the Ooo plugin) than 1.09
I think general consensus is that the beta refers to the sync (which still is a little buggy).

I strongly recommend the upgrade from my perspective.

noksagt

Refer to http://www.zotero.org/support/which_version

I still have concerns that there will be problems upgrading or running the 'beta' version.

Backup your current database, so that you can revert to 1.0 if you like; the only thing you'd lose is time.

Salander

Hi,

I'd like to know which version makes me possible to cite and create bibliographies in Word processor. As I see, citing pluggins of beta version does not permit working with text processors yet, am I wrong?

Thanks

dstillman

See the page linked above.

SimonCropper

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adamsmith

I'd say the improved plugin is a major asset of 1.5b - at least on open office it seems to run a lot more stable.

Salander

Hi,

I'm working with:
W XP
Firefox 3.0 with zotero 1.5 beta version
Openoffice 3.0
and the zotero plugin 2.0a2

Actually I have not problems but, anybody has detected any setback while was working whith this combination?

Salander

Sorry, I forgot to comment you my plugin is from NeoOffice