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Meanwhile, Firefox has big problems when you give it a 6MB Data URL, you get crashes or graphical glitches throughout the browser while it tries to draw the URL bar.


That seems like a weird oversight, since Firefox is normally quite good at rendering large assets. For example, I prefer viewing large SVG images (like those generated by dependency graphing tools) in Firefox, because unlike Chrome, it allows me to pan and zoom within the image.


My kneejerk rxn is, this seems more about URL length than asset rendering.


As it happens, Firefox 112 has some improvements in this area, although it's still true that handling a multi-megabyte URL will be a bit painful.




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