There are updated instructions here, but they only apply to 2.1b6/the current trunk. (Tab support in 2.1b5 was preliminary.)

Thank you. For me the context menu works but not the spacebar (in tab mode). 2.1rc2.

How did I miss that? There is now a new version where spacebar works again.

http://www.tkk.fi/u/mronkko/zoteroquicklook.xpi

Closing with esc implemented. A new version is available at the same address

http://www.tkk.fi/u/mronkko/zoteroquicklook.xpi

If you like the plugin, I would appreciate having more ratings and reviews at the Mozilla extensions directory

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zoteroquicklook/

yay! I won't be able to test for a while, but very excited about the note feature.

Thanks very much for your work. I have installed ZQL, but cannot get it to work, either with the space bar or the shortcut menu. I am on Windows 7 (64 bit) and Firefox 3.6 and Zotero 2.09. I have tried with maComfort and irfanview, changing the customviewcommand setting in each case. Might this be a 64 bit Windows problem? Both maComfort and irfanview work other than in conjunction with ZQL.

Thanks, Tom

There is a new development version available for testing. Changes include:
-Added cleaning of cached notes
-Fixed a bug where MaComfort was not found on 64bit Windows 7
-Increased the version number from 1.2

There is also a new demo video available at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2qt9H5G5KQ

Thank you for positive reviews at the mozilla extensions directory page.

bentle: Some people have had performance problems with Windows version of ZoteroQuickLook. If the performance is good on your system, would you like to share the following details:
-how long it takes to open the quicklook window?
-which PDF reader do you use?

Even better would be a short screen recording on ZoteroQuickLook in action on your system.

You can email these to me at mikko.ronkko@aalto.fi

First off let me say that I love Zotero QuickLook (Z-QL.) It saves me quite a bit of time and is just fun to use. I just performed a mass update which updated all of the Zotero elements and now Z-QL seems to be crashing Firefox. I can QuickLook an item in the Zotero list just fine. However, after QL-ing a pdf I try to two finger scroll down the list of items and firefox goes all beachball on me.

I annoyingly repeated this several times. I disabled Z-QL and am now able to perform a 2 finger scroll with seemingly no issues.

White Macbook 2007 OS X 10.6.7
Firefox 3.6.13, Zotero 2.1.1, Zotero QuickLook 1.2.0

chbr14: For some reason I did not receive an email notification of a new post. Please let me know if this is still and issue and I will see how it can be fixed.

Hi, I am looking for a light alternative to maComfort for Windows and found Sumatra PDF, which is a very light PDF viewer for Windows. It accepts a PDF file path/name as command line argument - I tested it.

However, I can't get it to work with ZQL. I changed the about:config preference to the path+name of the Sumatra PDF executable (tried with and without quotes), but when I hit the space bar i Zotero, nothing happens. I briefly tried maComfort and it worked, but I uninstalled maComfort again because I didn#t like it.

There is a bug in ZoteroQuickLook that prevented the custom view command from working.

The bug can be fixed by changing the content of zoteroquicklook.js, openQuickLook function to the following

[code]
openQuickLook: function(items) {

Zotero.debug("ZoteroQuickLook opening viewer",3);

var args=Array();

// A boolean indicating if we have notes this far.
var notesFound=false;

//Combine all filenames into an array

for (item in items){

if (items[item].isAttachment() || items[item].isNote()){
if(items[item].isNote() &! notesFound){
this.cleanOldNotes();
notesFound=true;
}
this.pushItemToArgs(args,items[item]);
}
//See if it has children and add them. Best attachment comes first.
//Notes come after attachments

else{

var attachments=items[item].getAttachments(false);
var notes=items[item].getNotes(false);

if(notes!==false &! notesFound){
this.cleanOldNotes();
notesFound=true;
}

children=new Array();
if(attachments!=false) children=children.concat(attachments);
if(notes!=false) children=children.concat(notes);

for (childID in children){
var child = Zotero.Items.get(children[childID]);
this.pushItemToArgs(args,child);
}

}
}


///If no files are specified, exit. Custom view commmand does not have base arguments but other view commands have one base argument.

if (args.length==0 ) {
Zotero.debug("ZoteroQuickLook thinks that no files are selected",3);
return false;
}

if(this.viewerBaseArguments!=null){
args=this.viewerBaseArguments.slice().concat(args);
}

var argsString="";

for( i in args){
argsString=argsString+" "+args[i];
}

//Write to debug what is called
Zotero.debug("ZoteroQuickLook calling a shell command: " +this.viewerExecutable.path +argsString,3);

Zotero.ZoteroQuickLook.proc = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/process/util;1"].
createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIProcess);

Zotero.ZoteroQuickLook.proc.init(Zotero.ZoteroQuickLook.viewerExecutable);

Zotero.ZoteroQuickLook.proc.run(false, args, args.length);

return true;
}
[/code]

I will include this bug fix in the next release of ZoteroQuickLook

Hey, great add-on!
Could you make a version for the Zotero Standalone? It looks like it is possible, and wouldn't take too much extra coding. Thanks!

Ha, very cool. Looks like he started this morning.

Here is a quick preview of an upcoming feature in ZoteroQuickLook. The quicklook dialog can now be activated directly from citations through the word processor plugin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVe4fKY_Fe4