Safari extension does not appear in preferences
I uninstalled Zotero because Safari extension was missing from the browser. When I re-installed it, the extension was missing from Safari preferences section. It's just not there. I saw this thread (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/403547#Comment_403547) and booted up in Safe Mode but the extension wasn't even there set aside solving my problem. I am using Late 2013 iMac which has MacOS Catalina 10.15.7. My Macbook Pro (Monterey, MacOS 12.3) does not have this problem. Any idea why is this happening?
We believe Apple improved this somewhat in Big Sur, and the next version of Zotero will limit the extension to running on Big Sur and later. If you're able to upgrade, you should try that.
Well, I have a dirty solution. I just installed Zotero Beta and it worked. I can see the extension on the preferences section. I tried to re-install normal Zotero just to see whether if it changes anything but when I switched to normal release it disseppeared again. I have no idea why. For the moment, I am going to use beta version on the desktop. I hope it doesn't cause any problem when there is a db update in the beta.
Just one more question. Would it create a problem for me to use beta on one Mac, release version on another? I read somewhere in the forum that sometimes you push big db updates on beta. Would that create a problem with my files?