BigQuery web UI is unresponsive & eventually crashes

Question

When I click on "Details" to see a preview of the data in the table, the web UI locks up and I see the following errors. I've tried refreshing and restating my browser, but it doesn't help.

Answer 1

Yes, we (the BQ team) are aware of performance issues when viewing very repeated rows in the BigQuery web UI. The public genomics tables are known to tickle these performance issues since individual rows of their table are highly repeated.

We're considering a few methods of fixing this, but the simplest would probably be to default to the JSON display of rows for problematic tables, and allow switching to the tabular view with a "View it at your own risk!"-style warning message.