When using Blender's file explorer to open an image (with image thumbnail generation enabled), blender will instantaneously crash if it enters a folder with an extremely high resolution image. The crash isn't a freeze, nor does it lock up the rest of my computer. It brings up "Blender is not respanding and must close" window.

I thought it might be a RAM issue, but I monitored the RAM as I entered the folder, and it never even had time to fill, for it crashes only milliseconds, if not instantly, when entering the folder.

If I disable the thumbnail generation, Blender will crash only when opening the file (still instantly though, same manner).

I tested it for a file format issue, and it has no problem with opening files of the same format at a smaller resolution.

This was also tested with only the image in a folder, no other files.

Windows is still able to generate a thumbnail for the image, and the image can still be opened and accessed, so its not corrupt.

The image that causes the problem is a 3,732 MegaPixel (86,400 x 43,200) 1.46GB TIF format image.
Blender can still easily open an image 1/8 the resolution and size (467 MP).
I was unable to test any resolutions between those two resolutions because of the time required to generate such images.

Blender 2.57.0, r36147, 64-bit
Windows 7 64-bit