On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 02:59:11PM -0800, Diane Trout wrote: > > > So I understand from your message that the main blocker is now to > > have npm > > updated. > > The other issue is their default build process appears to download > Firefox and extract and modify parts of it. > > That needs to be modified to use Debian's version of Firefox, but I > haven't figured out how yet.
But doesn't that assume that Firefox < 57 keeps on existing in Debian? I'm not sure that's a given: older firefox releases will eventually go away here too.. Zotero might call itself "standalone", but it's anything but: it's really shipping a whole Firefox instance under there. So much that, in fact, when I start the Zotero standalone binary downloaded from Zotero.org, it does absolutely nothing unless I first *stop* Firefox (>57) completely... Really confusing too... And right now, given that the "firefox" on my machine is FF 57, starting "zotero" (from the debian package) also doesn't work *even when firefox is not running*. The process just hangs failing to talk with the newer firefox binary... A workaround: firefox-esr -app /usr/share/zotero-standalone/application .. but now of course I can't do that since I ran Zotero 5 once, which upgraded my database with no chance of going back... Sigh. A.
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