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Curious about which browser and hardware. In my experience browsers often choke on 0.5GB strings, or decide to kill the tab/proccess.

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Yes, but I didn't read the full file, I kept the File reference and read the bytes in pages of 10MB IIRC to find all of the line break offsets. Then used those to slice and only read the relevant parts.

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