Filed with Mendeley Desktop http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/questions/9584677-libreoffice-plugin-is-terribly-slow- Problem: LibO becomes unusable for up to 1 minute while Mendeley plugin assumes control. Top shows soffice.bin consuming >= 50% CPU & ~4.56% Mem When MD plugin is disabled, or MD closed, there are no issues with LibO. Evidence suggests this is a MD problem. Document: Text comprises 433 words (3,026 characters), 7 citations (APA style in text) and corresponding bibliography. Repeatable issue: (1) click plugin to inser citation (2) click into grey citation in text body (3) click on refresh button System: Updated Linux Mint 17, using LibO 4.3.5.2 and MD 1.13.6. AMD Dual core, 64-bit, with 4GB RAM + 2.8 GB dedicated swap partition at 5% swappiness. The plugin is the correct one for this version of MD; I only have one LibO document open (described above) and the quickstarter enabled. Have contacted Mendeley Support - response is that this is a problem with LibO fieldcodes: support@mendeley.com replied: "MAR 31, 2015 | 03:41PM BST Josh replied: We don't have an update on this, as it was deemed to be a LO problem in how they process fieldcodes. Regards, Josh"
I wonder if this is anything to do with the issue underlying bug 86793. A sample document containing one or more of the problematic references would be useful to confirm or exclude this. @ phaedrusv@gmail.com: Could you possibly attach such a sample document? Setting Status -> NEEDINFO. Please set it back to UNCONFIRMED when the requested information has been provided. Thanks!
Confirmed against a document sent by email that this is caused by the same commit as that identified in bug 86793 comment 10 (Thanks for supplying that) Closing this one as duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 86793 ***