We have been working with Firefox 3 since its early Gran Paradiso alpha builds, and we will support Firefox 3 when it is released.

What about the SVN version--is it meant for Firefox 2 or 3?

The 1.0 branch is for Firefox 2. The trunk will be for Firefox 3 and already contains a few compatibility fixes, but there are still some issues in FF3, and it won't always have all the latest changes from the branch at any given moment. As development progresses over the next few months, the trunk may be far less stable than the branch (and the DB schema will definitely become incompatible).

(and does it have hierarchical item types yet)?

I don't expect that we'll implement hierarchical item types before switching to a new data model based on the Bibliontology spec that Bruce and others have been working on (though Bruce would have to comment more on the status of that).

You can install Zotero 1.0.x on FF3 the same way you can install any Firefox extension install on any version of Firefox: by using the Nightly Tester Tools extension or manually overriding the install manifest version compatibility settings. But some things won't work right, and there's no quick hack for that.

I'm stuck on Firefox 3 beta 3 at the moment, since Ubuntu Hardy recently dropped Firefox 2. After using the Nightly Tester Tools extension (http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly, thanks Dan) to install Zotero 1.0.3, I can report that it mostly works. Data operations in particular seem to work perfectly.

The problems are related to display, particularly the right pane (bibliographic info, notes, etc.). When I select an attached file, note, or link, the right panel appears about twice as wide as it ought to. Only half the material is visible; the rest is cut off. Same for the pop-up note-editing windows.

Worse, when I select a main item record, the right pane doesn't update at all, continuing to display whatever was selected previously. So there's no way to edit the actual bibliographic information that will appear in citations.

So... (gulp) what is the status of Zotero 1.5? Firefox 3 is near release (it's planned to be the Ubuntu default in just over a month), but Zotero 1.5 has virtually no presence on the forums or the mailing list, except a few curt replies telling users that "we will support Firefox 3 when it's released."

If a beta version of 1.5 is too far away, is there any chance some of the FF3 compatibility fixes could be merged back into the 1.0 branch? I know there are some huge changes planned for 1.5, but support for FF3 seems like one of the easier parts of the project (if not the most interesting). I know only the most basic Javascript, but I'll read the developer documentation and try to help out as I can.

Thanks so much for the quick reply! That's reassuring, and I hope the autocomplete thing gets sorted soon.

I'll check out the trunk version -- and tread lightly when editing metadata.

Hmm. The display issues persist on the latest development XPI (1.0.3.r2323) with Firefox Beta 3 (Build 2008021416). This is starting to sound like an issue better addressed on Trac or on the mailing list.

Oh... right. And sure enough, the display issues are fixed. Clearly, I'm going to be a LOT of help. :)

Thanks!

Do I need to do anything to my library that is now in Firefox2 to make sure it will transfer correctly to FF3?

Nope. Zotero will handle any data migration automatically.

Closing this thread. See my notes on testing with Firefox 3 for more info.