I installed Image Browser quite early in building my Drupal Site. I am used to modules having dependencies and will not be enabled unless their dependencies are satisfied. Image Browser says that it needs ImageCache and Transliteration - which the installation did not note as dependencies. I just added those now, as I noticed after using the site for about a week (adding around 20 pages of content) that my site began to bog down noticeably.

I have determined that the issue is that all of my images are of the simplified url form (_original) and they give a 302 response, which then requires the client to be redirected to the actual file. This doesn't seem to be cached. Each image is taking around 1 second to redirect and then load. For my pages (around 16 images total on a page) pageloads are around 17 seconds! I think it is because the ImageCache was not installed first (there are no ImageCache Presets in my installation). I tried to inactivate the imagebrowser and then re-activate it to hopefully rebuild some tables - but nothing happened. No presets appeared - should they?

I wish I could go back and make the old images static or work with imagecache. It appears that the old images are simply loading slowly each time, no matter whta.

This request is somewhat 3-fold.
(1) Bug Report: I think that if the main page states that Image Browser needs imagecache - it should be a dependency.
(2) Feature Request: Make it so that old images can be retroactively made static through a browser or a "update all".
(3) Support Request: Can anyone let me know where I went wrong? Am I on the right track in that if ImageCache had been installed from the beginning then presets would have been made that would work?

Thanks,
Justin