Writer stalls inordinately while loading web linked images

[bitrat]

Images in content copied from a web browser are pasted as links using the source image url.

Loading these images takes so long it should be marked as a fault.

Similar to: Writer Not Responding when paste an Image copied from the web

The solutions offered there are irrelevant to the problem.

Is it possible to configure the LibreOffice http client? I assume it’s calling a library function, something like curl, correct?

Version: 7.0.5.2
Build ID: 64390860c6cd0aca4beafafcfd84613dd9dfb63a
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3

[Hrbrgr]

How do I configure defaults so content copied from a web browser embeds images

To embed an image from a link requires many operations not related at all with formatting text: identifying a link (IMHO already in present code), retrieving the resource from the web (maybe some code may be reused because it is needed to display the image any way), storing it on the local computer (new code but where in the file system? this may require a new dialog to ask user for a location). I don’t personally think it fits in Writer (or more generally LO) workflow. So there is little chan…

[bitrat]

There are two problems with remote image loading on my setup:

1. it stalls the UI.
2. it takes a very long time.

1 seems to be a coding issue. Surely downloading the image should happen in a background thread, and alert the UI and document view via a callback event.

2 may be OS dependent , since it requires network operations. I wonder what’s going on under the hood. For example, what libraries / system calls are involved? Maybe the application is renegotiating or reloading services for each image? Whatever, there seems to be a problem on my system, but I’d prefer not to investigate it myself…