For context: I've got a Space Exploration game with about 15 planet/moon surfaces fully scanned-out. Searching for most things, even when searching All Surfaces, is fairly fast and the game never freezes for more than a few seconds, which is tolerable.

But there are times when I'll search for something like Wood, with [x] Entities checked, over All surfaces, and the game freezes seemingly forever (I assume this is because it's trying to list every. single. tree. on every surface?).

I know Background Search is an option, but ideally it shouldn't be possible foreground search (which is the default) to render the game unplayable, requiring me to force-quit and restart the game.

I'd be happy with simple 5-second timeout, such that after having frozen the game for 5 seconds it pauses the search and asks me if I want to continue the search or to cancel it.