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Re:Atom now opens files larger than 2MB by rplnt on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @06:28AM (#9691018)
> trying to open a 100MB file as an html page (even without all the extra styling and interactive options) will break any browser.

I'd love to test that. Anyone willing to privide an example file? HTML with css perhaps, no js. Should be pretty small when zipped.

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Re:Atom now opens files larger than 2MB by icebraining on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @06:37AM (#9691060)
Assuming you don't need anything complex, it's pretty easy to generate it.

Here's a 100MB HTML file (compressed to 300KB): https://curl.io/get/yt7zbmfq/0eb1564f570236acf1d9f304855a7c7...

As a side note, VIM opens it in an instant /troll

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