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• URL wouldn't be on by default. But if a given collection has a lot of items that, for the moment, are only distinguished by URL and time of modification/add, then anything shown is helpful. My use case is grabbing things from the Web that one migh…

  in Small changes neeeded to make saving web links easier Comment by JJSDataDrop November 13, 2017
• dstillman, I tried that link many times in different tabs with no success - however, following your insights I was successful saving it just now from a private window. So I believe you are correct that the issue lies with other extension conflicts …

  in Should not silently fail to save web page Comment by JJSDataDrop November 12, 2017
• Yeah, I understood that the flags were only for diagnostics, but sometimes software behaves differently in debug mode, even when it is not supposed to. In both cases, the program was taking a large amount of time - at least 30-60 seconds or so - be…

  in Zotero Standalone on Windows 7 Comment by JJSDataDrop November 12, 2017
• FYI, I have seen this issue on some pages too. I do not see it with the martinfowler page listed above, but the following link is simply not saved by the current Firefox connector: https://www.activistpost.com/2011/02/us-patent-6506148-nervous-syst…

  in Should not silently fail to save web page Comment by JJSDataDrop November 11, 2017
• Thanks, those suggestions helped a lot & I got it working. So what was the problem? The program was either hanging or going absurdly slow on startup due to an environment it was unhappy with including: a) a Zotero 4 database to update, b) a v…

  in Zotero Standalone on Windows 7 Comment by JJSDataDrop November 11, 2017