diff --git a/frontend/package.json b/frontend/package.json
index 2a722ea95..183dc34fc 100644
--- a/frontend/package.json
+++ b/frontend/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ofrak-app",
-  "version": "0.6.0",
+  "version": "2.1.2",
   "description": "The graphical front-end for OFRAK.",
   "homepage": "https://ofrak.com",
   "private": true,
diff --git a/frontend/src/FileBrowser.svelte b/frontend/src/FileBrowser.svelte
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..15ee298ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/FileBrowser.svelte
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+<style>
+  button {
+    padding-top: 0.5em;
+    padding-bottom: 0.5em;
+    padding-left: 1em;
+    padding-right: 1em;
+    margin-right: 2ch;
+  }
+
+  button:hover,
+  button:focus {
+    outline: none;
+    box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 0 currentColor, inset -1px -1px 0 currentColor;
+  }
+
+  button:active {
+    box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 currentColor, inset -2px -2px 0 currentColor;
+  }
+
+  .filelabel {
+    cursor: pointer;
+    font-family: inherit;
+    font-size: inherit;
+    color: inherit;
+    background: inherit;
+    border-color: inherit;
+    box-shadow: none;
+    user-select: none;
+    line-height: inherit;
+  }
+
+  .filelabel span {
+    width: 100%;
+    margin-left: 2ch;
+    background: inherit;
+    color: inherit;
+    /* border-bottom: 1px solid var(--main-fg-color); */
+  }
+
+  input[type="file"] {
+    display: none;
+  }
+
+  label {
+    display: flex;
+    flex-direction: row;
+    flex-wrap: nowrap;
+    justify-content: space-evenly;
+    align-items: baseline;
+    align-content: center;
+    white-space: nowrap;
+  }
+</style>
+
+<script>
+  export let files, input;
+  let dragging = false;
+</script>
+
+<div
+  on:dragover|preventDefault="{() => (dragging = true)}"
+  on:dragleave|preventDefault="{() => (dragging = false)}"
+  on:drop|preventDefault="{(e) => {
+    files = e.dataTransfer.files;
+    dragging = false;
+  }}"
+>
+  {#if !dragging}
+    <label class="filelabel">
+      <slot />
+      <input type="file" bind:this="{input}" bind:files="{files}" />
+      <span>
+        <button on:click="{() => input.click()}"> Browse... </button>
+        {#if files}
+          {Array.from(files)
+            .map((f) => f?.name)
+            .join(", ")}
+        {:else}
+          No file selected.
+        {/if}
+      </span>
+    </label>
+  {:else}
+    Drop the files to upload.
+  {/if}
+</div>
diff --git a/frontend/src/StartView.svelte b/frontend/src/StartView.svelte
index e5c53b416..8844b322b 100644
--- a/frontend/src/StartView.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/StartView.svelte
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@
     font-weight: bold;
     color: inherit;
     font-size: xxx-large;
+    line-height: 1;
+    margin: 0;
+    max-width: 50%;
+    text-align: center;
+  }
+
+  form {
+    max-width: 50%;
   }
 
   .center {
@@ -55,31 +63,70 @@
     width: calc(100% - 6em);
     height: calc(100% - 6em);
   }
+
+  input[type="file"] {
+    display: none;
+  }
+
+  .maxwidth {
+    max-width: 50%;
+    width: 50%;
+    margin: 1em 0;
+    display: flex;
+    flex-direction: row;
+    justify-content: center;
+    align-items: center;
+  }
+
+  .clickable {
+    cursor: pointer;
+  }
+
+  .underline {
+    text-decoration: underline;
+  }
 </style>
 
 <script>
   import Animals from "./Animals.svelte";
   import LoadingAnimation from "./LoadingAnimation.svelte";
   import LoadingText from "./LoadingText.svelte";
+  import TextDivider from "./TextDivider.svelte";
 
   import { animals } from "./animals.js";
   import { selected } from "./stores.js";
   import { remote_model_to_resource } from "./ofrak/remote_resource";
 
   import { onMount } from "svelte";
+  import { numBytesToQuantity } from "./helpers";
 
   export let rootResourceLoadPromise,
     showRootResource,
     resources,
     rootResource,
-    resourceNodeDataMap;
+    resourceNodeDataMap,
+    browsedFiles,
+    fileinput;
   let dragging = false,
     selectedPreExistingRoot = null,
     preExistingRootsPromise = new Promise(() => {}),
     tryHash = !!window.location.hash;
   let mouseX, selectedAnimal;
+  const warnFileSize = 250 * 1024 * 1024;
 
   async function createRootResource(f) {
+    if (
+      f.size > warnFileSize &&
+      !window.confirm(
+        `Loading a large file (${numBytesToQuantity(
+          f.size
+        )} > ${numBytesToQuantity(warnFileSize)}) may be slow. Are you sure?`
+      )
+    ) {
+      showRootResource = false;
+      return;
+    }
+
     const rootModel = await fetch(`/create_root_resource?name=${f.name}`, {
       method: "POST",
       body: await f.arrayBuffer(),
@@ -114,6 +161,12 @@
     }
   }
 
+  $: if (browsedFiles && browsedFiles.length > 0) {
+    showRootResource = true;
+    const f = browsedFiles[0];
+    rootResourceLoadPromise = createRootResource(f);
+  }
+
   async function getResourcesFromHash(resourceId) {
     const root = await fetch(`/${resourceId}/get_root`).then((r) => {
       if (!r.ok) {
@@ -168,8 +221,9 @@
 </script>
 
 {#if !tryHash}
+  <!-- svelte-ignore a11y-click-events-have-key-events -->
   <div
-    class="center {dragging ? 'dragging' : ''}"
+    class="center clickable {dragging ? 'dragging' : ''}"
     on:dragover|preventDefault="{(e) => {
       dragging = true;
       mouseX = e.clientX;
@@ -178,36 +232,59 @@
     on:drop|preventDefault="{handleDrop}"
     on:mousemove="{(e) => (mouseX = e.clientX)}"
     on:mouseleave="{() => (mouseX = undefined)}"
+    on:click="{() => fileinput.click()}"
     style:border-color="{animals[selectedAnimal]?.color ||
       "var(--main-fg-color)"}"
     style:color="{animals[selectedAnimal]?.color || "var(--main-fg-color)"}"
   >
     {#if !dragging}
       <h1>Drag in a file to analyze</h1>
+      <p style:margin-bottom="0">Click anwyhere to browse your computer</p>
     {:else}
       <h1>Drop the file!</h1>
     {/if}
 
+    <input type="file" bind:this="{fileinput}" bind:files="{browsedFiles}" />
+
+    <div class="maxwidth">
+      <TextDivider
+        color="{animals[selectedAnimal]?.color || 'var(--main-fg-color)'}"
+      >
+        OR
+      </TextDivider>
+    </div>
+
     {#await preExistingRootsPromise}
       <LoadingText />
     {:then preExistingRootResources}
-      <form on:submit|preventDefault="{choosePreExistingRoot}">
-        <select bind:value="{selectedPreExistingRoot}">
-          <option value="{null}">None</option>
-          {#each preExistingRootResources as preExistingRoot}
-            <option value="{preExistingRoot}">
-              {preExistingRoot.id} &ndash;
-              {#if preExistingRoot.caption}
-                {preExistingRoot.caption}
-              {:else}
-                Untagged
-              {/if}
-            </option>
-          {/each}
-        </select>
-
-        <button disabled="{!selectedPreExistingRoot}" type="submit">Go!</button>
-      </form>
+      {#if preExistingRootsPromise && preExistingRootsPromise.length > 0}
+        <form on:submit|preventDefault="{choosePreExistingRoot}">
+          <select
+            on:click|stopPropagation="{() => undefined}"
+            bind:value="{selectedPreExistingRoot}"
+          >
+            <option value="{null}">Open existing resource</option>
+            {#each preExistingRootResources as preExistingRoot}
+              <option value="{preExistingRoot}">
+                {preExistingRoot.id} &ndash;
+                {#if preExistingRoot.caption}
+                  {preExistingRoot.caption}
+                {:else}
+                  Untagged
+                {/if}
+              </option>
+            {/each}
+          </select>
+
+          <button
+            on:click|stopPropagation="{() => undefined}"
+            disabled="{!selectedPreExistingRoot}"
+            type="submit">Go!</button
+          >
+        </form>
+      {:else}
+        No resources loaded yet.
+      {/if}
     {:catch}
       <p>Failed to get any pre-existing root resources!</p>
       <p>The back end server may be down.</p>
diff --git a/frontend/src/TextDivider.svelte b/frontend/src/TextDivider.svelte
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..50043e84a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/TextDivider.svelte
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<style>
+  div {
+    width: 100%;
+    margin: 2em 0;
+    display: flex;
+    flex-direction: row;
+    flex-wrap: nowrap;
+    align-items: center;
+    justify-content: center;
+  }
+
+  hr {
+    flex-grow: 1;
+    border: none;
+    color: inherit;
+    border-bottom: 1px solid currentColor;
+  }
+
+  span {
+    padding: 0 2ch;
+  }
+</style>
+
+<script>
+  export let color;
+</script>
+
+<div>
+  <hr style:color="{color}" />
+  <span><slot /></span>
+  <hr style:color="{color}" />
+</div>
diff --git a/frontend/src/helpers.js b/frontend/src/helpers.js
index cbf7579e2..39e152e31 100644
--- a/frontend/src/helpers.js
+++ b/frontend/src/helpers.js
@@ -52,13 +52,31 @@ export function buf2hex(buffer, joinchar) {
     .join(joinchar ? joinchar : "");
 }
 
-/**
+/***
  * Asynchronously sleep for a certain number of milliseconds.
  */
 export async function sleep(ms) {
   await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
 }
 
+/**
+ * Turn a number of bytes into a text-based file size
+ */
+export function numBytesToQuantity(bytes) {
+  if (bytes < 1024) {
+    return `${bytes}B`;
+  } else if (bytes < 1024 * 1024) {
+    return `${(bytes / 1024).toFixed(2)}KB`;
+  } else if (bytes < 1024 * 1024 * 1024) {
+    return `${(bytes / (1024 * 1024)).toFixed(2)}MB`;
+  } else if (bytes < 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024) {
+    return `${(bytes / (1024 * 1024 * 1024)).toFixed(2)}GB`;
+  } else {
+    // TODO if necessary
+    return `${bytes}B`;
+  }
+}
+
 /***
  * Evaluate an input arithmetic string consisting of (possibly hex) numbers
  * and the given binary operators using the Shunting Yard algorithm
diff --git a/ofrak_core/CHANGELOG.md b/ofrak_core/CHANGELOG.md
index 4fc9bc552..fcaee5bed 100644
--- a/ofrak_core/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/ofrak_core/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 - Fix bug in `SegmentInjectorModifier` that resulted in deleting more resources than necessary [#200](https://github.com/redballoonsecurity/ofrak/pull/200)
 
 ### Added
-- Replace unofficial p7zip with official 7zip package. 
+- Replace unofficial p7zip with official 7zip package
+- File browser dialog in the GUI
 - Area in the GUI to jump to a given data offset
 - GUI command line now has a flag to not automatically open the browser