Vscode: Extension info tab: reload images everytime

[samzzz]

• VSCode Version: Code 1.17.1 (1e9d36539b0ae51ac09b9d4673ebea4e447e5353, 2017-10-10T14:24:50.851Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.15063
  

  - Extensions: none

The Extension info tab (Details) reload images every-time I come-back to the extension's tab after activating another tab. Please use cache to avoid this. This reload append even when I stay on the extension tab and I switch to another section: Contributions, ChangeLog, Dependencies, then I come-back to Details.
Thanks in advance and regards,

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open extension panel and search a extension.
2.Select an extension to display its info in a new tab.
3.Switch to another tab (file.html)
4.Comeback to the extension's tab an you can notice the images are reloaded
5.Repeat 3 and 4.

[joaomoreno]

@mjbvz Can we do some caching in the webview?

[TheColorRed]

In my extension, you type into a textbox, is it possible to add what was type to the url with a hash like so?

laravel-artisan://prefix/route-list#my-search-term

[Thaurin]

This happens with the Release Notes tab as well. The pause before the tab is reloading destroys the user experience. If this could be improved upon, that would be awesome.

[mjbvz]

I'm closing this as out of scope due to performance reasons. We could keep the extension page around like a background tab like in a browser, but that would mean we would have to keep it in memory. This is not good use of memory for an editor in my opinion

[KeithSilcock]

How about a setting? It's tedious when I have to reference these pages often enough that reloading the entire page and then scrolling to where I left off every time is more of a hassle than having less memory.