When you search for photo or your search results has lots of photos , search is slow, because catfish is generating thumbnail cache in .cache/thumbnails/normal/ I wish catfish had an option to disable generating thumbnails or at least start generating it only when choosing thumbnail view
Sean Davis referenced this bugreport in commit 6dfb3d93b78f03d98a721525dab8fea23229e387 Only generate new thumbnails if the thumbnail preview mode is active (bug #14689) https://git.xfce.org/apps/catfish/commit?id=6dfb3d93b78f03d98a721525dab8fea23229e387
With the above commit, Catfish will not generate new thumbnails when the thumbnail view is not active. Existing thumbnails are still used, and new thumbnails will be generated if the thumbnail view is used when searching.