Zotero connector stopped working; resolved by disabling Better BibTex add-on.
Yesterday I suddenly stopped being able to use the Zotero Connector. This morning I tried disabling Zotero add-ons, and disabling Better BibTex restored Zotero function. I post this here because the page on "Zotero Connector: “Is Zotero Running?” (https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/connector_zotero_unavailable) does not mention disabling Zotero add-ons as a troubleshooting step.
My environment:
version => 7.0.0-beta.77+adaa61f2c, os => macOS 14.4.1, Better BibTex for Zotero (6.7.186, extension, disabled)
The Bug Report/Feature request page at GitHub asked for a debug log. So I enabled logging, and that seems to have fixed the issue. So now I don't think I can replicate the issue either.
When I had the problem, I was seeing an incomplete red progress circle and some message about translators.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/114455/browser-suddenly-cannot-connect-to-desktop-app-on-linux-firefox-125
@prdpdx can you please join on github? I really, really want to get this fixed but the Zotero forums really aren't great for support for me.
The only thing I changed between 190 and 192 is that you can optionally turn off all http endpoints, but by default, they're all on, so there should be no functional difference between the two for you, as I haven't documented the switch to turn them off; in addition, there's another problem where Zotero.Translators.init is not returning for some people, which would explain the startup error, but without the logging I have available through github, it's all guesswork, and I'd very much like to take the guesswork out of this.
Having this bug out there where people are saying "uninstalling/disabling BBT fixes it" without me having any opportunity to fix it is pretty stressful. Please help me help you, people.