# Anki Browser causes everything to lag a lot **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [August 28, 2024, 9:31am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-browser-causes-everything-to-lag-a-lot/48745 "2024-08-28T09:31:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cliff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b38774/32.png) [@cliff](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/cliff)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 9:31am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-browser-causes-everything-to-lag-a-lot/48745/1 "2024-08-28T09:31:12Z")
I use clozes on articles and books. This results in many clozes in a note and also in a sort field, question, answer columns that have long text. I did read that if the columns have a lot of text it causes these lag issues by browser (see [Having a note type with over 127 fields and the "Exclude from unqualified searches (slower)" option enabled causes regular expression browser searches to fail - #2 by dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/having-a-note-type-with-over-127-fields-and-the-exclude-from-unqualified-searches-slower-option-enabled-causes-regular-expression-browser-searches-to-fail/43536/2)). If I dont hide the cloumns with long text everything get super laggy. editor also. When I hide them, everything gets fast. But if I hide all the columns with text I cannot find my notes anymore when I search, because in browser I only see now the columns named like Cloze1, Cloze2,… and so on I wanted to ask if there is any fix, setting or addon for that issue? This is really a problem. ---
**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-browser-causes-everything-to-lag-a-lot/48745/2 "2024-08-30T00:27:25Z")
If it’s just the abundance of text in the Browser display that is causing the issue, you can use Browser Appearance to be more selective about what is shown in the Question/Answer columns. [Card Templates - Anki Manual](https://docs.ankiweb.net/templates/intro.html) You might also consider adding a keywords/summary/glossary field. Then you can use that as your sort-field and it will give you enough detail about the notes. ---
**Author:** ![cliff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b38774/32.png) [@cliff](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/cliff)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-browser-causes-everything-to-lag-a-lot/48745/3 "2024-09-19T21:10:56Z")
thx! can you give me an example about being more selective what is shown question answer columns? I use clozes. And for that I copy for example a whole webpage with an article in anki. I quickly read over it and the stuff that I cloze out what want to reinforce and being able to recall. So my cards are like documents. short cards I mostly use for learning sentences or single words of foreign languages. ---
**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-browser-causes-everything-to-lag-a-lot/48745/4 "2024-09-19T21:51:11Z")
> [@cliff](#): > > can you give me an example about being more selective what is shown question answer columns? If you had multiple fields displayed on one side of a card, you could narrow down what was shown in the Question/Answer columns – but it sounds like you just have a single field that is overwhelmed. > [@cliff](#): > > I copy for example a whole webpage with an article Setting aside whether that is a good way to create cards [I have my doubts, but you didn’t ask about that] – this may be your problem. Are you being careful to only paste _the text_ into Anki or are you also bringing all the formatting, links, scripts, etc.? It takes _a lot_ of text to bog down a field/note, but having a lot of hidden code can double or triple the size of your note. You might consider using an add-on like [Note Size](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1188705668) to find and fix the worst offenders. [If you want an example of how bad it can be, I just searched my collection for “inherit” styling, because that’s one that slips past me sometimes. I found a note where I pasted 6 lines of text the other day as additional notes about something, and it ended up **6200 characters** – because almost every word had its own pointless span tag.] ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/9/6/96bc51a0d2184e5040d098d88e59d4e9b4be6375.png) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-browser-causes-everything-to-lag-a-lot/48745/5 "2024-10-19T21:52:11Z")
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