Reviews for JabRef Browser Extension
JabRef Browser Extension by Tobias Diez
3 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by strelochnik, 4 years agoThank you for your hard work on this. Unfortunately, it opens a second instance of Jabref even though I have "remote operation" on and listening to port 6050. The import pop-up window then freezes in this second instance without populating the entry and in the first instance it creates a new untitled library.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoI'm sorry to hear that you experience problems with the second instance opening. Could you please report this bug at https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues. - Rated 3 out of 5by Zage12, 5 years agoI am writing this review mainly to help Linux users get this working properly, since I just managed to do so myself. Will update this review when I use the plugin extensively
Note: this guide assumes you have jabref >= 4.2 and the JabFox extension installed. Also, for all of the files quoted below, you can always create the file by copy-pasting the appropriate text.
Step 1:
Download or create the file org.jabref.jabref.json, which can be found here:
https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/tree/master/buildres/linux/native-messaging-host/firefox
put it in either
/usr/lib/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/org.jabref.jabref.json
(i.e. for system-wide configuration)
~/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/org.jabref.jabref.json
(i.e. user specific configs)
Step 2:
Check if the file /opt/jabref/lib/jabrefHost.py exits. If not, download jabrefHost.py from here:
https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/master/buildres/linux/jabrefHost.py
and put it in /opt/jabref/lib/
Step 2.a:
Mark /opt/jabref/lib/jabrefHost.py as executable, i.e.:
sudo chmod u+x /opt/jabref/lib/jabrefHost.pyDeveloper response
posted 5 years agoThanks for your guide. With JabRef 5.0 these steps are now automatic if you install it via the Debian package. See also https://docs.jabref.org/import-export/import/jabref-browser-extension for the updated installation instructions. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12861017, 5 years ago