No, Firefox extensions do not affect snapshot saving in Zotero.

I will try that. Do you think Firefox extensions might also be a problem? I also have a lot of them, and it would be a lot more tedious to figure out which one of them interferes, if this is the case.

@Dennis_Z: As with Firefox, only prefs that differ from their defaults are stored in there. If you want to set a non-default pref, you have to add a line.

And the one I get when logging the error with the Zotero Connector (in Firefox): D207682449

When adding a paper via browser widget (firefox latest on mac osx latest and latest zotero) - the Saving To ... selection of library areas shows up, but on hitting "more" the box disappears.

support the same type of extension as Chrome and Firefox, and we plan to again offer a stable version for Safari at that time that works the same as in those browsers. More details on all of this on

unlike inidicated in tutorials and referred to in instructions I don't find the simple plugin to shift citationd from firefox to the desktp app.

Starting Zotero from the command line with the -jsconsole and -ZoteroDebugText flags might show you something (though possibly only the first time, so you should remove the proxy file and restart once

This is fixed now in Zotero Connector 5.0.70 for Firefox.

In case it is of assistance this was tested on Windows 10, Firefox, with all updates to Zotero and FF installed.

After the last zotero update, when a pdf opens in Firefox the pdf icon flashes very briefly then there is a grey square that is inactive and doesn't permit downloads. Is there anything I can do to fix

Ah, OK — Mozilla doesn't seem to have even documented that change.

@dstillman Sorry, I think there's a misunderstanding here. Firefox has always opened PDFs in browser, but some websites link to PDFs with the download attribute (some Google results, for example). Thi

This should be fixed in the latest Zotero Connector beta for Firefox (5.0.70beta1). Barring any problems, we'll push this out to everyone soon.

Oh, wait, I can reproduce it in Firefox. It's fine in Chrome. We'll take a look — no Debug ID needed.

@samvimes: No, that's some sort of misconfiguration on your end. Firefox has defaulted to previewing PDFs in the browser — at their original HTTP URLs, without prompting — for years, and it absolutely

I'm seeing this too on JSTOR with Firefox. 1-2 reloads usually fix this.

@dstillman The update to Firefox 78 changed that behavior; when clicking on a PDF link Firefox now offers to open it inside the browser instead of the system's PDF viewer (the previous default). PFDs

I have the current version of Zotero and Firefox connector; however, I am not longer abe to save PDFs (they show as webpage screenshot) to my library. I am not aware of any changes on my laptop. I am

As that page says, you can configure Zotero the same as Firefox using the exact same settings.