Metadata fetching interrupts manual tag entry

I add a document to Zotero 7.0.20. Zotero creates a parent item with metadata.

Then I start typing tags into the tags field of the parent item. Meanwhile Zotero is fetching more metadata for the item, updating the abstract, etc. But when it adds the extra metadata, it interrupts my typing in the middle of a word and moves my cursor into the second tag field while I'm still typing the first tag. So then I have to go back and correct the tag I was typing.

This is very annoying and happens all the time. I wish it would wait until I am done typing, or otherwise preserve my cursor location so it wouldn't interfere with what I'm doing.
  • Do you have any plugins installed? I don't think Zotero has any functionality to add metadata once a parent item exists (various plugins, e.g. Zotero linter, do).
  • edited December 10, 2025
    This is when I add the item via Zotero Connector.

    I don't have any other plugins installed. This all happens within the first few seconds. Fetching the abstract etc seems to be as part of the process of creating the parent item. But by that point I'm already typing the tags, in the Zotero desktop interface.
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