Hi Kind of worked it out. For some reason I couldn't do any search unless I had a database open already. I didn't know that, now I know. I'm sorry for all this trouble. Ta Sokol
On 29/04/15 15:19, Tony Mancill wrote: > On 04/28/2015 01:02 AM, sn0m wrote: >> Public bug reported: >> >> It seems jabref is unable to perform online search after the last update. >> When clicking on fetch after filling in the online search text, nothing >> happens. To me it feels there's some policy that stops it from getting >> online to execute the search. >> This what's in the program output in the help/show error console/ log: > Hello, > > Could you please provide some more detail about the search you're trying > to perform and any additional console output produced? Once I open a > database, I'm able to perform successful searches against: > > CiteSeerX > Google Scholar > ArXiv.org > > A test search against ACM Portal returned a 403, which may indicate that > we need to update jabref, but I believe the general Web Search > functionality is working and that this error could be due to changes on > the ACM site. > > Thank you, > tony > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1449414 Title: jabref not performing online search To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jabref/+bug/1449414/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs