Zotero is super-slow in all functions

marionsd · September 17, 2017

I have several hefty group libraries, but until I switched from Zotero + Firefox to Zotero 5.0 standalone, I was able to use it quite well. Now it's super slow and often it just freezes if I so much as try to search for a reference in my library. It's almost unusable. Any idea what could be wrong and how I could fix it? Adding references from Chrome is also painfully slow.

adamsmith · September 17, 2017

The only thing that's known to be slow afaik is start-up, which also includes the first time you select a group library (and there's work to improve that).
A debug id for a slow search would be helpful:
https://www.zotero.org/support/debug_output#zotero_508_and_later

rwielage · September 19, 2017

Search while adding a citation using the new citation box has become painfully slow after moving to standalone. I'm running 5.0.19 on Windows 10. I find search using the classic view to be much faster.

adamsmith · September 19, 2017

same request.