Are there file size limitations when using javascript FileReader API?

Question

You can use javascript FileReader API to display a preview of an image which is provided from a file input field. This comes in very useful in the sense that you don\'t have

Answer 1

It seems in Chrome 45 the limit is 261 MB.

Unfortunately there is no error (FileReader.error == null) when the size is above that limit, the result is just an empty string.