Upgrade Storagedisable autocomplete for editing creators?
The slowest activity for me is editing the names of authors. Zotero (I use it in Firefox and also Standalone - this issue affects both) sometimes hangs for a long time (at times, 1-2 minutes) when trying to edit author names.
Inclusion of an option not to autocomplete author names would presumably help here. I don't use this feature anyway, because there are too many authors in my database for a sensible selection to appear when I start typing. There are already multiple versions of many authors because most entries are imported rather than typed in.
Inclusion of an option not to autocomplete author names would presumably help here. I don't use this feature anyway, because there are too many authors in my database for a sensible selection to appear when I start typing. There are already multiple versions of many authors because most entries are imported rather than typed in.
Devs need more details to help you:
http://www.zotero.org/support/reporting_bugs
A real-time debug output might be useful in your case.
In case it is useful, I've just submitted Debug Output when attempting to edit the surname field for a new record (it only hung for c. 5 seconds this time, but it varies a lot): D1391692042
It possibly relates to a problem with the record I was trying to edit. I added this from Google Scholar. The import was successful, but produced an error report: 113923208.
Or it might be related to the fact that my Zotero library is on a networked folder which syncs locally so that I can still access it if I'm offline.
People have reported issues on server-mirrored folders, but if you're seeing a three-minute hang that you weren't seeing before, that suggests a problem with the new autocomplete method in 4.0.10.
How reliably can you reproduce this? Does it only happen while using autocomplete?
I can't reproduce this reliably. I just went back and edited the author name in the same record, and it worked smoothly with no delay at all. But that was also what I experienced before: it was an intermittent problem. Autocomplete of author/creator names seems to be the main trigger, but I'll keep an eye out for other things that cause this.
I think you're right that it only started to hang after I'd pressed tab to go to the next field. Previously, it would hang almost as soon as I started typing. So that makes sense in relation to your last comment.
I'll see how it behaves over the next few days and post more info if the problem persists.
How many items do you have in your Zotero library?
I'm still experiencing the same problem with a hang in Standalone when trying to edit creator names: about 3 minutes as before. I just submitted a debug report (D929317348).
I forgot to mention that I have experienced some delays when importing a new item using Zotero in Firefox. Firefox would often hang for ~1 min, and if I was streaming radio, it would pause. This was the main reason I have started using Standalone, because I can import an item while continuing to use Firefox.