Just noticed the error references Works.xml explicitly. If you need it I'm happy to send it to you privately.
BUG Version 1.33: xml entity exceeds size limit
Just checked, and my work machine also has a process called WebView. I don't know whether that's the cause here too, but the fact that it's on the machine makes it a reasonable explanation.
"Intermittent" is the watchword here too. Although it seems to be a lot better now then when I first opened this issue. Perhaps it was very bad only immediately after installation of the new version (v1.30). In the past few days it seems to have been fine. If the previous instances of it hanging a few months ago were also in the wake of new version installs (I didn't keep track of that, but they might have been), it could be something on the PC scanning fastidiously for viruses or similar. Once the...
What you describe sounds identical to my experience. When I said "crash" I just meant hanging for a very long time on opening and when doing tasks like saving to XML. It hangs indefinitely and I have to force-quit when closing the program. There are never any error messages and it never closes on its own. I guess "freeze" is a more accurate term. I haven't been able to run it as an administrator as I don't have those privileges. But since my problem sounds the same as yours, we can maybe infer that...
Repeatedly hanging on a Windows system without admin privileges
HTML link encoding bug
Bumping this because I just noticed Zotero notes appear to be fully "markdownified" now. Within the notes panel you have various formatting options; when text is copied from the notes panel to somewhere else it carries the markdown formatting with it. Within the note the text just looks formatted, the markdown is "hidden" until you copy-paste it somewhere else. For me this would be basically perfect in the Hypernomicon text editor. Perhaps also with an option to switch between "formatted" (as Zotero...