libertine libreoffice zotero crash

[Petras]

I have bq M10 tablet, where libreoffice comes as preinstalled in libertine. While OTA-12 brings the keyboard which is great, still the usabillity of libreoffice (writer) is lacking as zotero can't be used successfully:
what I tried:
[x] Zotero installs and works in firefox
[x] zotero plugin install sucessfully in libreoffice as extension, and buttons appear

When as required by zotero firefox is launched, then in libreoffice clicking any button of zotero crashes the libreoffice.

I am not familiar with mir/unity8. I see that it does have problems with popup windows. In normal use (on desktop) citing opens instance of firefox popup window for selecting the citation. Maybe that is the cause of crashing the libreoffice, as in tablet mode the firefox is inactive? but it also crashes in desktop mode.

Is this caused by some missing functionality? (popup windows, isolation of applications, something else?)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andis (andis-lazdins)]

I guess it is not only Unity problem. We have 8 Ubuntu Mate 16.04 64 bit computers with Libreoffice 5.2.x and default JRE and in all PCs Zotero crash both Firefox and Libreoffice (Firefox is not crashed but it can't be stopped without killing it). There are no problems with Openoffice.org. There is bug open in Libreofffice (https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105705), however there are no progress yet. Zotero is considerable part of our work and it is much more functional than alternatives so it is serious problem for us. At the moment we trying to use Mendeley, but it is not as easy to use and functional as Zotero.