[chadkeck]

Absolutely agreed. It is due to the immaturity of the browser implementations, which will hopefully be fixed soon.

It regularly crashes(!) Chrome on "large" files; thus, the limitation.

[antimatter15]

You could split up the file chunks by reading in sections (blob.webkitSlice and mozSlice) as array buffers and sending them to a worker object. Then you could process those in chunks with WebWorkers (or WebGL) and have a progress indicator.