Pubmed "Save to Zotero" button missing from address bar
I recently updated to Zotero 2.0.2 from 2.0. With the change, I am no longer able to add items from PubMed automatically to Zotero ("Save to Zotero" file folder and document icons) because the icons no longer appear at the end of the address bar.
I replicated this same problem by upgrading from a 1.x version of Zotero to 2.0.2 on another machine. Is this a known problem? Is there a fix or workaround besides entering the PMIDs into the "Add Item by Identifier" field?
I replicated this same problem by upgrading from a 1.x version of Zotero to 2.0.2 on another machine. Is this a known problem? Is there a fix or workaround besides entering the PMIDs into the "Add Item by Identifier" field?
I am having the identical problem: after upgrading to Zotero 2.0.2 from Zotero 1.x, it is no longer possible to download any bibliographic information from two sites from which Zotero had easily downloaded info in the past. The Zotero "blue book" icon is no longer visible on the address bar of either site. Restarting zotero and firefox after correctly shutting them down has no effect on the error. The error report (report id above) appears be of the same type in every case.
Website URLs: www.amazon.com; www.lib.uchicago.edu
Zotero version: 2.0.2
Firefox version: 3.6
Operating system: Linux
[ If there is a better place to post this information, I apologize. ]
Amazon almost never breaks, though, so see Troubleshooting Translator Issues. You can also try Reset Translators and Styles from the Advanced pane of the prefs.
Here are the URLs for a variety of web pages that I have tried:
http://www.amazon.com/Generalized-Latent-Variable-Modeling-Longitudinal/dp/1584880007/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1269189376&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Instrumentation-Orchestration-Alfred-Blatter/dp/0534251870/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269190150&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0387848150
http://libcat.uchicago.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?term=Attending+Daedalus&x=6&y=4&sid=e&index=.GK
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html
I suspect that this is a silly configuration issue, but I don't know enough about Zotero to be able to resolve it.
I was choosing "Stop Script" upon getting the "Warning: Unresponsive script" dialog (thinking, at the time, that the error was intermittent and unrelated to Zotero). Clicking "Continue" instead does indeed fix the problem, not only on the Amazon book information pages, but on NY Times articles, e. g.,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/health/policy/21health.html?ref=todayspaper
To clarify the symptoms:
The "Warning: Unresponsive script" error consistently occurs on computer startup IF the computer's previous session was shut down while Zotero was running in Firefox.
However, the "Warning: Unresponsive script" error does NOT occur on startup if in the computer's previous session, Firefox (and hence Zotero) were exited before shutdown.
Now -- what is happening? What does the script do, and why does allowing the script to continue fix the problem?
The "Zotero icon absent from address line" error is definitely replicable, and it has something to do with IceCat's running at the same time -- which means, I think, that some files common to Firebird 3.6 and IceCat may be involved.
Here are some experimental results from a computer fitted with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ CPU running at 2GHz. The steps were performed in the sequence shown:
1. Shut down computer with Firefox/Zotero and other apps (IceCat, VMware, StarOffice, kAddressbook, Gimp) still running. On bootup, Firefox displays "Warning: Unresponsive script" dialog box. Choose "STOP SCRIPT." Now Firefox/Zotero start up, but there is NO ZOTERO ICON in (e.g.) Amazon book info pages. (This is the original error condition.)
2. Shut down computer with Firefox/Zotero and other apps (as above) still running. On bootup, Firefox displays "Warning: Unresponsive script" dialog box. Choose "CONTINUE." Now Firefox/Zotero start up, and Zotero behaves NORMALLY. (This is the work-around you mentioned.)
3. Exit IceCat, then shut down computer with Firefox/Zotero (and remaining apps) still running. On bootup, Firefox displays "Warning: Unresponsive script" dialog box. Choose "CONTINUE." Now Firefox/Zotero starts up, but there is NO ZOTERO ICON in (e.g.) Amazon book info pages. (This is a new error condition.)
3. Restart IceCat, then repeat 1. On bootup, Firefox/Zotero behave as in 1. (This is proof that IceCat is affecting Firefox/Zotero behavior.)
All in all, rather interesting behavior. Any ideas?
I put in an adjustment last night that might help a little bit with this, but I suspect it just has to do with disk cache performance on Windows and Linux. (I've never seen it on OS X.) You can try the latest branch build to see if that makes a difference. If not, just adjust the setting as described on the unresponsive script warning page. This isn't really a problem unless Firefox is actually freezing when that's set to 0.
Script: chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/db.js:151
I have restarted my laptop and I do not receive a 'warning: unresponsive script' message when I boot firefox. In fact, I get no message at all - the blue book icon simply isn't there.
Have you come up with a comprehensive solution since the issue was first raised? If so, I would love to know.
Many thanks.
MFermont - please make sure you have followed step 1-9 here:
http://www.zotero.org/support/troubleshooting_translator_issues
and then provide the information requested in 10.
Do what adamsmith says.
I could really use it here:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/voragine1.html