Where is my "Z"?

101james

During the last week my trusty "Z" icon in Firefox has dissapeared. I can activate Zotero by opening Firefox menu system. I see Firefox has added "stuff" like the 'pocket' (?) and some 'shears' and wonder if this "stuff" has replaced the useful Z?
Is this a local anonomly on my machine?

I'm running Zotero 4.0.xx

I will upgrade to 5 but need this to stay stable for a short while longer.

Thanks for your help.

dstillman

The icons may have moved to the overflow menu (accessible from the right edge of the toolbar) or the menu panel (accessible from the three-bars icon to the right of the toolbar). You can also check the Customize view.

(And as it sounds like you know, the Z icon is going away with Zotero 5.0, but that shouldn't be relevant if you still have Zotero 4.0 for Firefox rather than the Zotero Connector.)

101james

Thanks for that mighty quick response. Not even finished my coffee! It's not hiding there either, unfortunately.
I guess since I can open it this won't hurt functionality?
Also, I'm assuming everything is forward comptable i.e., insertions written by 4 into a Word 16 document will be read and work under Zotero 5?
Thanks

adamsmith

Yes, documents are actually forwards and backwards compatible between Zotero 4 and 5.

(it's very odd that you'd see the Z neither in Customize nor in the overflow, though; you've checked both?)

101james

I have just checked the overflow (not there) and then realized there is the customized section at the bottom (the plus). A click on that shows up the "Z" lets me add it back.

There is two Z's there - I don't know why. The one I've add let's me add references which is what I need.

Thanks! Big help.