Planned timeframe for upgrading Zotero standalone to build from Firefox 60

David Waren · July 17, 2018

Do you have a timeframe when you're planning to move Zotero Standalone to be based off Firefox ESR 60 rather than 52?
The reason I ask is for information - for planning. We support an extension to Zotero which we updated to work with Zotero 5 Standalone around the start of the year. Certainly the upgrade to base off Firefox ESR 60 will require additional changes, and we're trying to get an idea of when the upgrade is coming, if you happen to know.

Rintze · July 17, 2018

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/zotero-dev/9olDhMYvQj8/At3bIq8uDAAJ has a status update from March: "We've mostly already updated Zotero to run on Firefox 60 ESR (https://github.com/zotero/zotero/tree/fx60) and should have that
finished by the summer. (Third-party XUL-based plugins will still work
with minor adjustments.)

Electron/React is still the plan, but Firefox 60 ESR should get us
through to 2019."

Rintze · July 17, 2018

And it looks like ESR 52 will be EOL'd by September 5, 2018 (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history#Firefox_52.9.0_ESR), so unless we hear otherwise I would expect Zotero to upgrade to ESR 60 just before then, based on similar upgrades in the past.

David Waren · July 17, 2018

Thanks for the information.

emilianoeheyns · July 17, 2018

What kind of minor adjustments are we looking at?

dstillman · July 17, 2018

Standard Firefox major version upgrade stuff, the same as if Zotero were still a Firefox extension — e.g., XPCOM interfaces that have changed or been removed between 52 and 60. You can see the changes so far here.

emilianoeheyns · July 17, 2018

Knock on wood, but I think I have most of those changes already in.

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