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XLcommerce on Feb 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Mothereffinanimatedgif

Just fyi:

uses filereader. There is a bad (crashing) memory leak in Chrome.

Bug report here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=114548...

Beware if you intend to use filreader to read many large files. Allocated mem never gets released.

Spent 2 days getting a html5 client side image resizer/uploader only to hit this killer bug.

Had to use Flash in the end, which by the way performs like a demon on binary data.

paulirish on Feb 17, 2012 [–]

Just threw your bug report over to our FileReader engineer. Thx for filing!

XLcommerce on Feb 17, 2012 | [–]

No worries. I was v. disappointed when I had to fall back on flash for resizing. Felt great having client side image resize and upload (with progress) without using flash.

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