Bug 1460 – Skip loading icons from .exe (and similar) files when it takes too long

2016-09-14 10:50

Emails with Johnen Stefan in September 2016.

2016-09-14 10:50

Implemented.

2017-05-19 10:05

See Bug 1533 and Bug 702 and 5.6 change "Preventing stale network drives from slowing or completely halting main window opening."

2017-09-15 11:16

Generalized in Bug 1556.

2018-02-16 11:44

Commits:
Commit 0a65f2d8

2018-11-29 15:32

Caused Bug 1709 - to solve, this change is now disabled by default and can be re-enabled using
/rawconfig Interface\TimeoutShellIconRetrieval=1

2018-11-29 15:33

Since 5.14.2, .exe icons are loaded asynchronously.