Configuration. MacMini M4Pro and Mac airbook M1 with latest MacOS 26, latest version of MS Office and zotero
Mainly the same issue reported In the corresponding threat, in particularly:
1. occured after updating to MacOS 26.1 2. opening zotero and word as normal 3. Start with "Addd/editing citation" 4. zotero is responding normally showing the window to find and choose an entry 5. After choosing the entry and cling the "ok"-Button, the red framed window stays still for prox. 30 sec 6. Then in final stage a progress bar is shown for an other 5 secs 7. Zitation is set into the word document properly
Things tried out: 1) reseting the security infrastructure of Mac OS, so that the access to zotero, word must be allowed again -> no change 2) coping the content of word document into a new document -> no change 3) trying a new empty document -> the response time is shorter of cause, but a delay is still seen 4) Testing a new user account -> delay is still seen. 5) Problems also seen on my second Mac, Air M1
I hope this helps to locate the bug and to provide a proper solution. Interessing ChatGPT which guided me to finding a work around finnaly suggested, that the problem is caused by the new security infrastructure in MacOS 26 causing a lot or recurring security checks for each zotero entry
Are you saying that working on the same document (or documents of the same length, with similar number of citations and citation styles) it wasn't as slow prior to MacOS 26.1?
Yes as I working with the previous version everything was ok. Then I switched to 26.01 and then very quickly to 26.1 without using zotero in between. After I came back to use it again, the delay occurred
We've done some testing internally and we may be seeing something like this too, approximately a 2x difference in our testing, although not on the same machine, so the results are not conclusive. Apple updates have slowed the Zotero Word plugin in the past, and later fixed it, so it's possible that macOS updates are at fault here.
Submit a Debug ID for a slow operation and we can see if it's anomalous.
The debug file using /Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/zotero -ZoteroDebugText> ~/Desktop/zotero-debug.txt is empty In safari I can see "Preference item by right click, but I get no response clicking it
The debug log you've submited doesn't show a slowness that's not ordinary. It could be a little faster, and that's Apple's or Microsoft's fault, we are just using the tools they have provided for plugin developers, so we can only be as fast as their tools.
You should submit a Debug ID for an insertion into your main document and we can tell if that's uncommonly slow, but otherwise there's not much to do. We recommend disabling Automatic Citation Updates in Zotero tab Document Preferences for bigger documents where citing speed becomes an issue.
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Mainly the same issue reported In the corresponding threat, in particularly:
1. occured after updating to MacOS 26.1
2. opening zotero and word as normal
3. Start with "Addd/editing citation"
4. zotero is responding normally showing the window to find and choose an entry
5. After choosing the entry and cling the "ok"-Button, the red framed window stays still for prox. 30 sec
6. Then in final stage a progress bar is shown for an other 5 secs
7. Zitation is set into the word document properly
Things tried out:
1) reseting the security infrastructure of Mac OS, so that the access to zotero, word must be allowed again -> no change
2) coping the content of word document into a new document -> no change
3) trying a new empty document -> the response time is shorter of cause, but a delay is still seen
4) Testing a new user account -> delay is still seen.
5) Problems also seen on my second Mac, Air M1
I hope this helps to locate the bug and to provide a proper solution.
Interessing ChatGPT which guided me to finding a work around finnaly suggested, that the problem is caused by the new security infrastructure in MacOS 26 causing a lot or recurring security checks for each zotero entry
Thanks for your work for open source software
Are you saying that working on the same document (or documents of the same length, with similar number of citations and citation styles) it wasn't as slow prior to MacOS 26.1?
Submit a Debug ID for a slow operation and we can see if it's anomalous.
In safari I can see "Preference item by right click, but I get no response clicking it
I did this in a new document, delay was short but was visible
You should submit a Debug ID for an insertion into your main document and we can tell if that's uncommonly slow, but otherwise there's not much to do. We recommend disabling Automatic Citation Updates in Zotero tab Document Preferences for bigger documents where citing speed becomes an issue.