Confused by behanior of Safari plugin

adjoas
Hi folks,

Forgive me if I'm missing something basic here, but I don't understand how the Safari plugin works, or should work.

On some sites (e.g., greentechmedia.com), the Z button is "alive", as in visible and can be pressed in Safair, so that I am able to import a site into Zotero standalone.

But on others (eg., plugincars.com), I cannot. Yet using the Firefox Zotero extension, I *can* import the exact same pages.

Is something wrong here? Or I missing something basic?

Many thanks, Adam
  • adamsmith
    could you give a specific URL rather than just the general website? I'm not sure I understand the problem exactly. Also, how are you importing in Zotero on the pages that don't work in Safari.
  • adjoas
    Hi Adam,

    Thanks for your quick response. I hope this will help clarify further.

    http://www.plugincars.com/nissan-first-advanced-driver-assistance-leaf-hits-roads-japan-128415.html
    On this page, in Safari, the 'Z' button is greyed out, so impossible to import into my Zotero database. If I go to the same link in Firefox, I can create a web page record of the link.

    http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Making-Sense-of-46-Million-Smart-Meters-Delivering-1-Billion-Data-Points-Ev
    In Safari, if I surf to this page, the 'Z' button is awake, I click on it, and then flip over to Zotero standalone, the page appears there.

    I'd like find a way to approximate the convenience of the Firefox extension in Safari, so that I can me easily archive web pages as I surf through them.

    Hope this helpful. Happy to relay more context if need be.

    Adam
  • adamsmith
    ah OK - the equivalent of the "Create New Webpage Item" button in Firefox is right-click (ctrl+click) --> Take Zotero Snapshot
  • adjoas
    Hmm. Still confused. To be clear: My hangup is in Safari, not Firefox.

    On some pages, I cannot take a snapshot in Safari of the URL that's already loaded (as oppose to a link I'm clicking to) bc the Z button is greyed out. In those cases, is there any workaround in Safari so that I can take a snapshot of the page I've reading?
  • dstillman
    adamsmith answered your question — you just misread it. Try what he wrote.
  • aurimas
    We're assuming here that in Firefox you are clicking the "Create Web Page Item from Current Page" button. In Firefox, Safari, and Chrome you can achieve the same result by right-clicking on the page and selecting that same option from the context menu (assuming you're not looking at a PDF or something else that's not an HTML page).

    Note that you should really only use that option when there is no URL bar icon (or icon is grayed out in Safari).
  • adjoas
    ah, got it. thanks. I wasn't clear where to click: i was clicking on the URL link in the address field, rather than *on* the rendered page in the browser.
  • dstillman
    Yeah, it's not a great solution, but it's all there is at the moment.

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