Quick documentation in Intellij IDEA is painfully slow

Question

I am using IDEA 13.x and the quick documentation is painfully slow. I think the reason is that this documentation is fetched over the internet.

Eclipse fetches this documentation directly from the JDKs src.zip (or other source files). There is NO fetching delay.

Can I somehow configure IDEA to get the documentation it shows in the popup from the local src files?

Answer 1

I met the same problem you mentioned. I guess it's because IDEA is trying to fetch doc online with the url specified in Project Structure > SDKs > Documentation Paths, so I deleted the url(back it up first), and it's much faster now.