Google Doc partially unresponsive after adding in text citation

cerani

A very well reproducible glitch recently started happening in all of my documents and makes writing impossible.

I'll be as specific as possible

I use Google Chrome, to write in Google Docs. After adding an in text citation (AMA format), the adjacent paragraphs (sometimes half of a page) become unresponsive. When hovering over the mouse cursor, instead of the typical text cursor (I), the mouse cursor is a white arrow and the text is frozen, I cannot click anywhere or somehow edit the text. If I do manage to highlight it, the highlight is grey and unresponsive. Refreshing the page resolves the problem, until I need to add another citation.

I have tried, disabling all Chrome extension, re-installing Zotero, unlinking the citations, updating my computer/chrome/zotero, restarting, etc.

The glitch happens in new documents, and in older documents where I used Zotero successfully. The fact that it resolves after refreshing makes me wondering if it has to do with the refreshing rate, I have turned on offline editing as well but it didn't resolve the issue.

Any clues, hints and advice to resolve this are deeply appreciated.
Can post any additional info if required

dstillman

Probably the same underlying problem that was hopefully fixed by this:

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/456008/#Comment_456008

cerani

Although that was happening earlier, I can confirm that the citation is inserted, linked correctly and works as intended. However it freezes random portions of my paper, most frequently the following paragraph

adomasven

However it freezes random portions of my paper, most frequently the following paragraph

I have seen this in testing. This is a Google Docs editor bug and you should report it to them (e.g. by using Help -> Help Docs improve). Otherwise you can navigate the inaccessible parts of your document by using arrow keys.