I use Vifm's SSHFS mounts as provided in the Vifmrc file,
filetype *.ssh
\ {mount with sshfs}
\ fuse_mount2|sshfs %param %destination_dir %foreground,
My problem is that the remote machine to which I connect is usually very slow, so that an operation as simple as changing directory can take a handful of seconds — not to mention copying files from/to it. Meanwhile, Vifm is frozen and, for example, I cannot switch to the other pane or to another tab to carry out some other task.
Of course this is not Vifm's fault, but I wonder if there is already some way to circumvent it that I'm missing? I have tried
set slowfs=~/.local/share/vifm/fuse
but it didn't help in that regard.