Soooo......
I was under the,
mistaken, impression that "View Image" was the same thing as opening the image with a double click.
I almost never use the right-click menu - it's much faster for me to just double-click than to right-click then find the selection then left-click. Since the file size is not listed on the image edit view, I just thought it was only available in reports or Get Info... all of which (including View Image) required extra work to get.... I know, first-world-problems...
Getting an image thumbnail, dimensions, and file size on a hover just seemed easy. I'm lucky enough to not be concerned about memory usage - memory is cheap. I also grew up in the time where every bit of memory was precious when programming so I get it, but it just doesn't matter to me much anymore. Although I can definitely see where having the ability to turn off that feature in preferences would help those that ARE concerned about the memory usage. Maybe add thumbnail size selector as well as display delay at the same time. Or, for that matter, can you have the option for
zero image size and only display the dimensions and file size on hover??
Having that kind of feature is pure convenience, but a nice one.