There's some misunderstanding here.

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.

@kenk_depaul: https://www.zotero.org/download/connector/dl?browser=safari

@peskeguy: Thanks, that's a better link. I've added that to the previous post.

@lenlira: There's no "fix" — Apple discontinued this type of extension and further limited their extension framework — but you can use the Zotero Bookmarklet if you want to keep using Safari. See our support page for more info.

@mschwarze: We address that on the support page:

Technically, Safari 12 will continue to support the older form of extension when distributed through the Safari Extensions Gallery, but approvals can take months, and Apple won't be accepting new versions after December 2018. We don't want to put Safari users in a position where they're stuck running old versions of the extension that we're not able to update.

That sounds good!

That's incorrect. This is only about the Safari browser.

When you fix the bookmarklet, can you please make it possible to save ANY webpage. It’s super-frustrating to get an error when you are on the run with your phone or iPad and just want to save a link to follow up later. This cannot be difficult to do. Please!

@mlaytner I can confirm that Zotero works with Mojave betas when used with Chrome or Firefox.

Yes, if you use Zotero with Chrome, you will install the Zotero Connector plugin to connect the browser to the Zotero desktop app.

Any reason why you wouldn't just install & use Chrome, Chromium, or Firefox, all of which have working Zotero add-ons that are more powerful than the Safari one ever was?

Of course use the browser that you prefer, But, in my experience, Firefox is faster and less resource intensive than Safari. Firefox has a password manager, and there are also powerful apps like 1Password to store passwords and other secure data and sync across your devices.

@Mingyi: You certainly don't have to give up Zotero. As explained in our support document, you can either use Firefox or Chrome for the best experience or use the bookmarklet in Safari for basic saving. We'll be releasing an improved version of the bookmarklet in a few days.

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.

No, if you have auto-sync enabled and save with the bookmarklet, the new item should appear in your local library within a few seconds.

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?

@liambarber: How exactly are you installing it? If you right-click on the saved bookmarklet and select Edit Address, what do you see?

I've just tested installing the bookmarklet in Safari 12 and Mojave and it works for me.