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stephen@fierbaugh.or
Thank you for Zotero. I've learned to depend on it. It makes bibliographies a snap! It got me through grad school and I use it daily.

I recently updated to Mint 17, which includes Firefox 30.0. After syncing and getting all my other bookmarks and add-ons, I could not find Zotero.

I located the "[Sticky] Zotero icon in Firefox 29 and higher" post, but I do not think this is the problem I am encountering. I am familiar with FF & add-ons. I could not locate it in my add-ons list at all.

The FF Get Add-ons page does not list it when I search for "Zotero" (although it lists a couple of add-ons to the add-on...). The following page at Mozilla,
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zotero/
has a message that:
Extensions >> Zotero
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Do you have any suggestions? I love Zotero and I use it everyday. I have a growing number of FF tabs open that I need to Zot. Please tell me that Zotero is still available for Firefox!

Thank you,
Stephen
  • stephen@fierbaugh.or
    I have just located the thread
    "Zotero add-on is no longer available at Mozilla's add-o"
    https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/28847/zotero-addon-is-no-longer-available-at-mozillas-addons/
    It answered my question. I have downloaded the extension from zotero.org and it solves my problem.

    This is a bit counterintuitive because it varies from FF's standard way to get add-ons. I trust Zotero, but I concur with the user in that thread that it isn't a good security practice.

    +1 for enabling Zotero in FF's standard add-ons process.

    Stephen
  • dstillman
    This isn't going to change. Zotero is way too big and complex to be hosted on AMO, with far too much code for them to review meaningfully, so the only result was more work for everyone and delays in getting important updates out to users.

    If you trust Zotero, you trust Zotero. If you're concerned that we're going to add malware to Zotero that the AMO reviewers would otherwise have caught, you shouldn't use Zotero. The same applies to any software you download directly from the publisher's website.

    If you have further questions or comments, you can post to that thread.

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