Approach<\/h2>\n
My suspicion was that firefox is missing some WebDAV functionality so I compared the intstalled packages of a other Debian machine where it worked.<\/p>\n
I searched for packages which contain the term ‘webdav’ in their title or description in the Synaptic package manager on both machines and found some differences. The machine where I tried to set up Zotero is a relatively fresh installation with xfce4<\/a> as desktop environment. The machine I compared the package list to is an fairly old installation. The additional ‘webdav’ packages on the old machine are the evolution mail client, some gnome libraries and the sogo-connector for Icedove (Thunderbird).<\/p>\n
My first attempt was to install the ‘gnome-user-share’ package but this has a big bunch of dependencies (even ‘apache2-bin’). So I tried to install the ‘xul-ext-sogo-connector’ which has also some dependencies (‘icedov’ and ‘iceowl-extension’) but I need a mail client anyway so this was no pain for me.<\/p>\n

Installing the ‘xul-ext-sogo-connector’ package with<\/p>\n

aptitude install xul-ext-sogo-connector<\/pre>\nsolved the problem.<\/p>\n
I restarted Firefox after the installation and the configuration with my own WebDAV server worked.<\/p>\n
\nPS: Maybe my installation was broken but I could not find any zotero packages in the debian packages before I upgraded from ‘jessie’ to ‘stretch’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Approach<\/h2>\nMy suspicion was that firefox is missing some WebDAV functionality so I compared the intstalled packages of a other Debian machine where it worked.<\/p>\n