Near-freeze when dragging/dropping PDF onto record

Zotero slows down and freezes Firefox when I drop a PDF on a record from my file manager (1.0.7, Windows XP). This has to do with fulltext-indexing. Apparently the request for indexing is not queued to be done later but executed right away, even before actually attaching the PDF. This means that FF is unusable for a few seconds up to a few minutes if you've just attached a file by drag 'n drop. Quite annoying.
  • We only have a single thread to work with, so even if the pdftotext process were run as non-blocking, there would be a seemingly random freeze of the entire Firefox UI later on as the thousands of words were entered into the database. There wasn't a good solution to this in Firefox 2, but Firefox 3 allows us to detect when the computer is idle and perform operations then, so I've added a ticket for this.
  • Thanks for explaining!
  • Any news on this?
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