Jabref 5.0 very slow update gui entries

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I upgrade jabref from 4.2 to 5.0 today. Compared to version 4.2 the version 5.0 responds very slow in the order of 10sec to update a changed gui input.
How can I improve the performance?
(OS: Windoes 10 Home)

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Same for me here, slow gui (OS: Win 8.1)

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Sorry for the inconvenicences. This is partly related to the new UI technolgy.
We are planning on performance related optimatzions in the next release.

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After some attempts with different Jabref versions (4.3.1; 5.0 and 5.1) I found a solution at least for me.
To override the old version, i.e. using the same old folder folder (c:\Program Files\JabRef) showed no progress, still to slow (except of jabref 4.3.1).
In a next step I removed all previous jabref installations and subsequent installing jabref 5.1 from scratch I’ve got a system which now is what I expected fast enough.
Therefore I assume that my previous jabref installations contained some faults.

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I updated jabref to development version 5.5 build 3/22 (yesterday). Jabref is still very slow with a lot of typing lag time.

I am on windows 10 64 bit.

Would appreciate any guidance.

Raghu

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First of all I’m just a user. Not a developer. I’m wondering where did you get the development version 5.5 build 3/22. The only version on https://builds.jabref.org/master/ is 5.1 from 23.03.2020. (status 24.03.2020)
All I can say my approach is described above.

  1. removing old jabref version
  2. install from scratch version 5.1 from 12.03.2020

JabRef 5.1–2020-03-12–23034ce
Windows 10 10.0 amd64
Java 13.0.2

Hope this helps

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Thanks. I meant 5.1.

JabRef 5.1--2020-03-22--0808168
Windows 10 10.0 amd64 
Java 14

I did fully clean out the earlier installation.

Still things are slow.

I was wondering if others are also seeing this behavior.

This is more a question for the developers.

Cheers.

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Hi,

we are aware of some perfomance issues with large databases.

We are constantly working in improving JabRef and tweaking the performance.

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Thank you. Appreciate all the work.

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Good news, we recently fixed some performance issues, once JabRef is started, the user experience should feel much smoother.
Please try the newest development version:
https://builds.jabref.org/master/

Please make a backup of your library before trying out he new version,

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I experienced the same/similar issue with 5.0 on MacOS. I don’t see any improvements in regards to this in the dev version.

I tested with a small (30 entries) library. Every other time I click an entry instead of the info being displayed immediately nothing happens for up to ~10 seconds. Then again a few times it will just work fine. See attached screen recording.

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@tilltnet Please see my comment above. You should try out the latest development version.
Performance has been increased

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@Siedlerchr I followed the link you posted and tried the portable macOS version and the PKG and it does not make a difference.

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@tilltnet Please open an issue with a detailed description at our bug tracker https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues