It's not an issue of overall system resources, but rather how much data your actual browser program can load at one time. Most browsers will crash when trying to load too much information. The best I've seen at this is Firefox... you'll get a few "script is processing for a long time, do you want to continue" prompts, but it will eventually load all of it without crashing.  I've pulled up 1,500 pages worth of chat log for a 1.5 year game in Firefox before where other browsers die in the attempt.