Effectively unable to display large files
Bug #625114 reported by
Tony Wirth
This bug affects 1 person
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Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
If I try to open a csv file of say 36kb, something nasty happens and my firefox browser hangs. This occurs both on XP and MacOS. Someone suggested to me that it might be a problem with Javascript. I lose a few minutes each time this occurs as it takes some time to shut down and restart the web browser.
Changed in ivle: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
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I can confirm that this is a problem for Firefox 3.6 on Windows when trying to open a 680.0 kB CSV file.
If you wait for Firefox to tell you a script is making the browser unresponsive you can stop the script and edit the file (though you only get ~1/2 the line numbers).
The file editor is really designed for small scripts and so may not handle large files very well. This seems to be a recurring problem with almost any Javascript based editor. At this time the best option would be to use Excel or a similar program to view large CSV files (CSV files in the editor are pretty hard to look at).
Perhaps we can disable the Javascript editor on files greater than a certain threshold? Another option is a dedicated CSV table editor.
Chrome 5.0 seems to open the file fine.
IE8 opens the file, but does not show line numbering beyond the second line.