Now you can use Zotero independently from Firefox:

"
Zotero 3.0b1 for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Since 2006, Zotero has run as a pane (or more recently, as a tab) within the Firefox browser. Many users, however, have expressed their preference to run Zotero as an entire separate desktop application. As of today, researchers can now download and install a version of Zotero that runs fully independently of the Firefox browser. The user interface remains familiar enough so that long-time Zotero users won?t get lost, but this application also includes important new functionality, including automatic duplicate detection and resolution; an entirely new and streamlined integration with Microsoft Word and OpenOffice; and a refined quick search interface."

http://www.zotero.org/blog/

Dominik

Dominik, thanks for posting this news. I always kind of liked Zotero, but in the last two years or so when I have used Chrome to virtual exclusion of Firefox (or any other browser), Z was out of the question. For me Firefox's increasing bugginess and problems running scripts made it - and anything attached exclusively to it, non-starters.

Daly

Dominik Holenstein wrote:

Now you can use Zotero independently from Firefox:

"
Zotero 3.0b1 for Mac,
Windows, and Linux.

Since 2006, Zotero has run as a pane (or more recently, as a tab)
within the Firefox browser. Many users, however, have expressed their preference to
run Zotero as an entire separate desktop application. As of today, researchers can
now download and install a version of Zotero that runs fully independently of the
Firefox browser. The user interface remains familiar enough so that long-time
Zotero users won?t get lost, but this application also includes important new
functionality, including automatic duplicate detection and resolution; an
entirely new and streamlined integration with Microsoft Word and OpenOffice; and a
refined quick search interface."

http://www.zotero.org/blog/

Dominik

Hi Daly,

Same "problem" here!
I have been using the Google Chrome browser for two years now and never ever had the wish to switch back to Firefox. Chrome is much faster and more stable. I am glad to test the independent Zotero app now.

Dominik