Performance issues

dh
Zotero is generally fantastic. However, when capturing a reference from pubmed or elsewhere, it completely locks up Firefox while saving the reference/pdf.

Is there any thought towards having a multi-threaded version of zotero so I can capture a reference in one tab/window while continuing to use Firefox to browse for other references and/or webpages?

Please?

Thanks,
D
  • dh
    Anyone? Bueller?

    D
  • dstillman
    Set the max page/char settings to 0 in the Search pane of the Zotero preferences and see if the delay goes away.
  • dh
    Definite improvement, but still an initial lag phase where you can't do anything for ~1 second.

    Is this feature going to be threaded in the future to allow Firefox to continue doing other things while Zotero caches the text data?

    D
  • dstillman
    The full-text indexing we should be able to get off the main thread.

    The ~1-second delay will vary by translator, and we can't do too much about it—anything that touches the DOM, which is the case for many translators (and particularly the slow ones), has to stay on the main thread. We might be able to allow other Firefox events to be processed while it's going, though.
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