Zotero Safari Extension not working with Safari 12
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AdBlock has one primary function — blocking ads — and Apple now provides a new way for them to do that. The Zotero Connector has more features, and some of those already didn't work in Safari due to the more limited extension framework. With Safari 12, even fewer things are possible, and it's not at all clear that a Safari App Extension would be substantially better than an updated bookmarklet that saves directly to Zotero. So expending a huge amount of effort — you're going to have to take our word on that — to produce something not that different from the bookmarklet for honestly very few users simply isn't a good use of time. We have many Mac users, but very few Safari connector users, both because not that many people use Safari to begin with and, presumably, because the Safari connector was already much more limited than the Chrome and Firefox connectors.
We understand this is frustrating, but that frustration should be more properly directed at Apple for removing all but the most basic extension functionality and asking developers to put in a huge amount of extra work that's not necessary with Chrome and Firefox just to use that basic functionality.
Future architectural changes to Zotero may make it easier for us to create a Safari App Extension, which would change the calculus here somewhat. But for now, we have a new bookmarklet coming soon that should restore the ability to save to a local Zotero, which is most of what the Safari connector provided before and most of what a hypothetical new version could do anyway.
In the meantime, you can use the current Zotero bookmarklet to save to your online library or switch to Chrome and Firefox before saving.
Here is a link with the screenshots in English in case anyone was confused by prior set of directions: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/09/give-new-life-to-old-extensions-in-safari-12/
Why can't you submit the old version to the Extensions Gallery then?
And will the new bookmarklet be able to chose which folder to save to?
(It will likely also be almost identical to what we'd be able to do with the new, more-limited Safari App Extension framework, which is why we're saying a Safari App Extension isn't currently worth the effort.)
As I am not coding literate, I think, that during this time I think I will change my workflow for literature research to Chrome web browser where I find in the Chrome Web Store a "Zotero Connector" and a "Juris-M Connector" both connecting to my Zotero Account ...
I'm lost as to what to do now. I'm addicted to Zotero. Thoughts?
I prefer to use safari because it is less battery intensive on my mac & also it automatically syncs passwords with all of my devices. Chrome is a resource hog.
Note that, while we've produced an extension for Safari for many years, as far as I know all other competing tools have only ever had bookmarklets for Safari. So for now the experience of using Zotero in Safari will simply resemble what you'd have gotten all along with other tools, but not anything worse. And we're looking into ways of improving things for Safari users going forward.
When you save an item with the bookmarklet, you should see a progress window saying that it's saving to zotero.org. Is that happening?
I've just tested installing the bookmarklet in Safari 12 and Mojave and it works for me.