A "back" previous button

enrique_martino
Hello, dear dear zotero developers

I was getting lost in my folders and to do list, without a sort of "back / previous button ", so that one can navigate across folders and the still get back to what one was looking at before.

I realize i can open a new Window and start a new zotero session, but its quicker this way.

Thanks
and really thanks
  • djcrowley
    +1 for a back-button, to navigate to previous citations.
  • fbennett
    The Item History for Zotero plugin should work for this (it's meant to, anyway).
  • djcrowley
    edited February 18, 2012
    The Item History plugin looks useful, so I installed it. But I can't figure out how to use it! Maybe another cup of coffee would help. Is there a button? A navigation list somewhere? A hidden preference?

    I'm running zotero 3.0b3, and my Firefox (10.0.3) tells me the add-in is there, but there's no there there.

    tia
  • mronkko
    It should add three buttons between the lookup and sync buttons.
  • djcrowley
    There are no buttons there, I'm sorry to say. I tried uninstall/reinstall of both the extension and zotero, but that didn't help. I'm running a beta version, so I'm not sure if this might be an issue.
    Any way, I should be working on my thesis rather than fiddling with software! :)
  • adamsmith
    a beta version of what? Of Zotero? There is no current beta version.
    Either you're running the most recent Zotero version (3.0.3), a branch XPI (which is currently virtually equivalent to the 3.0.3 version), or Frank's multilingual, which is labeled "experimental" - which presumably means pre-beta.
  • djcrowley
    Hi adamsmith -- sorry I was a bit confused. But could you please take a look at what it says on the Downloads page (http://www.zotero.org/download/)? It inaccurately says the latest released version is 2.1.10. I selected the beta page when I did my uninstall/reinstall, so now I'm actually using the released version 3.0.3. I also upgraded my standalone zotero.

    In any case, I'm still not seeing the buttons that mronkko referred to.
  • adamsmith
    yeah, that should be fixed. How did you get to that page, though? It's not linked to anymore afaik. The download button from zotero.org currently links here:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/3.0
  • djcrowley
    There's a strip menu at the very top of the home page, with a 'Downloads' link. When I click, it takes me to the inaccurate /downloads page. Even using the strip menu at the top of this Forum page, I get the same result.
  • adamsmith
    Thanks - I'll expect Dan or Faolan will fix this asap
  • fbennett
    The Item History plugin was broken in FF10 (and maybe other recent versions) due to some bad version detection code. It's been fixed, and should now install and run okay.
  • djcrowley
    Joy! the buttons have arrived. Thank you for your help!!!

    /djc
  • dstillman
    I'll expect Dan or Faolan will fix this asap
    Faolan will have to fix the link, but I replaced that page with a link to the 3.0 page for now. A proper new download page is coming soon.

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