firefox connector problem?

mks1999

Hi,
Looking at forum entries it appears that at least for the chrome connector if I am at some hypothetical web site e.g.

paper.stuff.com/file.pdf

I can click the connector button and it transfers file straight to zotero (and if it finds the doi, hopefully pulls in the ref info as well)

for a few different sites I have attempted, this has not worked.

is this a firefox problem, or do I have a local problem, or do I misunderstand the capability of the connector?

And if I misunderstand, I think this would be a nice feature so that I don't have to separately save, then drag in

thanks

Michael

dstillman

It works in Firefox, but due to technical limitations in Firefox you won't see the save popup — the button in the save icon will just turn into a green checkmark or a red X.

mks1999

Thanks
Actually, nothing happened. Certainly no popup, no checkmark or X, nor was anything captured

and i believe the following problem occurs for both chrome and firefox. lets say I have an html file that is local, not an external url/webpage. e.g. file in url box reads as

file:///directory/fname.html

it seems that the capture function wont grab it.

If the connector is not designed to do that, it would be a nice feature. Some conferences no longer issue a pdf of the abstract, but an html file. Pulling the abstract from the distribution, not a website, would be helpful

Michael

adamsmith

We'd need to see a URL for the PDF to say more, but this definitely works in general.

On the other hand, local file URIs won't work -- browsers don't allow add-ons access to those for security reasons.