Make ImageLoader use background thread #5394
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This is the same change as in #4069 but as this is stale I wanted to reopen a non stale PR
Modifies ImageLoader's load function to use background threads for the image decoding work. This avoids blocking the main thread that is especially noticeable when loading many images at once.
This was modelled after the other loader implementations that also use threads.
file://
is blocking, while image loader forhttp://
runs fine. #5375