You will now need to browse to the Zotero plugin located on your computer.

Click the Add option to the middle right of the box.

At the bottom of the box select the Template option from the drop down menu then click Go.

Make sure the Zotero add-in is not already installed or installed twice.

You will have to install the Zotero plugin manually. This is usually due to the security settings of your device. Sometimes the MS Word plugin will not install automatically. it should give you this option on the main screen of a freshly installed Zotero client but if not you can do the following: Click on Edit > Preferences > SYNC > Enter your username and password and keep the Sync options checked. Once you create an account you will need to enter your information in to the Zotero Standalone App to sync your account. If you forgot to register or accidentally closed this window before doing so, you can still register at. This is important if you would like to use Zotero's web based client. It will also ask you if you would like to install the Web Plugin for the same browser.įurther down the page you will be given the opportunity to register with Zotero and create an account. Once you've installed the Standalone App a page will open in your default browser letting you know Zotero successfully installed. When creating your account you can use whatever email address you would like, it is not necessary to use your FDU email address. Be sure not to do this with your main firefox application.To create your free account go to and click the 'Download Now' button. That way it never gets updated accidentally. One of my colleagues created a script to remove the old firefox, and untar it on every run.

verify the plugin is active (check about:plugins).

copy this to the mozilla/firefox plugin folders (I couldn't figure out which one to copy it too, so I just copied it to anything firefox/plugins or mozilla/plugins).

Now your openJDK installation will contain a IcedTeaPlugin.so file in the jre/lib folder.

Install the icedtea-plugin and the icedtea-plugin.

Download a tar of Firefox, version 51 (newer version don't support the plugin).

After a long trial-and-error approach, I got IcedTea working consistently in an older version of firefox like this:

I need in-browser Java for legacy work-related websites, and the oracle java plugin does not cut it. I figured someone else might be in the same situation.

This is an old thread, but I stumbled upon it while googling a solution to my problem today.

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