Feature: Quicker files and folder display for folder that have already been visited

[armsicot]

What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

When a new folder in opened, "Files" loads the content and thumbnails which take some short but noticeable amount of time (noticeable as files appear one after the other). I propose that during the navigation, the content and thumbnails that have already been loaded are memorized for a quicker response (especially when we come back to a previous folder, in the situation the Windows original file explorer is faster).

This feature could be activated in the parameters as it may come with the drawback of more CPU / memory usage.

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Files Version

3.9.0.0

Windows Version

10.0.22631.4751

Comments

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[yaira2]

Thank you for your feedback, we're working on improving performance and progress is being tracked in #4180. Thumbnails are a tricky one as caching them in Files increases memory usage significantly and is not always faster than loading from the shell.