Making Winword plugin work with Waterfox
I've just downloaded waterfox 9, and for me it is a huge improvement on the 32-bit version of firefox. The zotero browser plugin appears to work fine with it: I can access all my citations and add new ones without a problem. However, when I try to use word processor plugin in Word, I get an error message telling me that "zotero could not load the component required to communicate with your word processor."
I tried editing the macros in zotero.dot in the Word startup folder so that "Waterfox" is listed as a possible program name and so that a directory path points to waterfox, but it didn't work. But I'm not exactly fluent in visual basic (or whatever the code is called--sorry!), so I'm assuming I did something wrong or am missing a step.
Any advice?
I tried editing the macros in zotero.dot in the Word startup folder so that "Waterfox" is listed as a possible program name and so that a directory path points to waterfox, but it didn't work. But I'm not exactly fluent in visual basic (or whatever the code is called--sorry!), so I'm assuming I did something wrong or am missing a step.
Any advice?
I appreciate any time you're willing to give in explaining this stuff. Thanks.
Mozilla provides the XULRunner SDK for Win32, but they don't provide the XULRunner SDK (or released Firefox versions) for Win64, and neither does anyone else to my knowledge. In theory, you could compile a 64-bit version of the XULRunner SDK the same way the Waterfox people compiled a 64-bit version of Firefox and then compile the Word for Windows Integration extension against it. We don't do this because it's a non-negligible time investment in an unsupported platform. When Mozilla officially supports Win64, they will provide XULRunner SDK builds, and we will provide Word for Windows Integration builds against those SDK builds.
:)