st.slider crashes browser tab when max_value=500000000 and step=1

[snehankekre]

Summary

st.slider causes the browser tab to crash when max_value is set to a very large (> 300 million) value and step=1.

Steps to reproduce

Code snippet:

import streamlit as st

st.slider(label="Number of Rows", min_value=0, max_value=500000000)

It’s important to note that this operation effectively passes an array to JavaScript with five hundred million elements, since I am trying to go from 0 to 500 million in multiples of 1. It’s not surprising to me that this would make the browser have issues and crash the tab. However, @treuille says Streamlit should ideally throw an exception instead and not crash the tab.

Expected behavior:

Ideally, Streamlit should throw an exception when max_value is "too large" (however that's defined) and stop the execution, rather than causing the tab to crash.

Actual behavior:

The browser tab crashes after a few seconds. On Chrome, you see:

Aw, Snap! 

Something went wrong when displaying this web page.

Error code: 5

slider-crash.mov

On Firefox, you see a blank tab.

Is this a regression?

no

Debug info

• Streamlit version: 1.13.0
• Python version: 3.9.12
• OS version: macOS Monterey 12.6 Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0
• Browser version: Google Chrome Version 105.0.5195.125 (Official Build) (x86_64) | Firefox Version 105.0.1 (64-bit)

Additional information

Internal Slack thread