Bug when Adding Bookmark in v24.2

I just updated to LO to 24.2 and I am using ODT files with Win10 x64. I opened an ODT document that is several hundred pages long. When I selected a word and then select Insert > Bookmark, the Bookmark dialog appears, but the document starts paging down, page after page after page. I physically see the pages of the document as if I was pressing the PgDn key repeatedly. This is wasting a lot of time in a large document. I went away for 15 minutes and when I came back the paging has stopped and the Bookmark dialog was still open. I entered the bookmark text and closed the dialog and it returned to the document that was open. I saved the document to create a new ODT file thinking the update needs a new formatted ODT file. After saving the new file, I tried to insert another bookmark by Selecting Insert > Bookmark and LO is now hung. I get the blue circle hourglass and the background is disabled. It has been like this for 10 minutes. I had to terminate LO Writer application. I had no problem adding bookmarks in the previous version of LO v7.4.7.2.

Has anyone else had this problem adding bookmarks? Is it because I have a large ODT document?

You might check if this is related to this bug: 158221 – Insert bookmarks dialogue takes a very long time to appear when there are many bookmarks
If you think so, feel free to add a comment there.

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Thanks for the link. Yes, it’s the same bug. I posted my comment there. I’m surprised it was reported 6 months ago and still not fixed. I will have to stick with v7.4.7.2 until its fixed.