diff --git a/packages/interface-ipfs-core/package.json b/packages/interface-ipfs-core/package.json
index 1ff79ce8e3..30a369b572 100644
--- a/packages/interface-ipfs-core/package.json
+++ b/packages/interface-ipfs-core/package.json
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@
     "pako": "^2.0.4",
     "readable-stream": "^4.0.0",
     "sinon": "^14.0.0",
-    "uint8arrays": "^4.0.2"
+    "uint8arrays": "^4.0.2",
+    "wherearewe": "^2.0.1"
   },
   "browser": {
     "fs": false,
diff --git a/packages/interface-ipfs-core/src/files/stat.js b/packages/interface-ipfs-core/src/files/stat.js
index 04e949764f..3b63389c4a 100644
--- a/packages/interface-ipfs-core/src/files/stat.js
+++ b/packages/interface-ipfs-core/src/files/stat.js
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { identity } from 'multiformats/hashes/identity'
 import { randomBytes } from 'iso-random-stream'
 import isShardAtPath from '../utils/is-shard-at-path.js'
 import * as raw from 'multiformats/codecs/raw'
+import { isBrowser } from 'wherearewe'
 
 /**
  * @typedef {import('ipfsd-ctl').Factory} Factory
@@ -103,6 +104,27 @@ export function testStat (factory, options) {
       })
     })
 
+    it('should stat a large browser File', async function () {
+      if (!isBrowser) {
+        this.skip()
+      }
+
+      const filePath = `/stat-${Math.random()}/large-file-${Math.random()}.txt`
+      const blob = new Blob([largeFile])
+
+      await ipfs.files.write(filePath, blob, {
+        create: true,
+        parents: true
+      })
+
+      await expect(ipfs.files.stat(filePath)).to.eventually.include({
+        size: largeFile.length,
+        cumulativeSize: 490800,
+        blocks: 2,
+        type: 'file'
+      })
+    })
+
     it('stats a raw node', async () => {
       const filePath = `/stat-${Math.random()}/large-file-${Math.random()}.txt`
 
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-core/package.json b/packages/ipfs-core/package.json
index 36e6c546eb..aac1e417ce 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-core/package.json
+++ b/packages/ipfs-core/package.json
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@
     "any-signal": "^3.0.0",
     "array-shuffle": "^3.0.0",
     "blockstore-core": "^2.0.1",
+    "browser-readablestream-to-it": "^2.0.0",
     "dag-jose": "^3.0.1",
     "datastore-core": "^8.0.1",
     "datastore-pubsub": "^6.0.0",
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-core/src/components/files/utils/to-async-iterator.js b/packages/ipfs-core/src/components/files/utils/to-async-iterator.js
index 06f7a9ee5c..219b959a19 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-core/src/components/files/utils/to-async-iterator.js
+++ b/packages/ipfs-core/src/components/files/utils/to-async-iterator.js
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 import errCode from 'err-code'
 import { logger } from '@libp2p/logger'
-import {
-  MFS_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE
-} from '../../../utils.js'
 import { fromString as uint8ArrayFromString } from 'uint8arrays/from-string'
+import browserStreamToIt from 'browser-readablestream-to-it'
 
 const log = logger('ipfs:mfs:utils:to-async-iterator')
 
@@ -44,52 +42,7 @@ export function toAsyncIterator (content) {
   if (global.Blob && content instanceof global.Blob) {
     // HTML5 Blob objects (including Files)
     log('Content was an HTML5 Blob')
-
-    let index = 0
-
-    const iterator = {
-      next: () => {
-        if (index > content.size) {
-          return {
-            done: true
-          }
-        }
-
-        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-          const chunk = content.slice(index, MFS_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE)
-          index += MFS_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE
-
-          const reader = new global.FileReader()
-
-          /**
-           * @param {{ error?: Error }} ev
-           */
-          const handleLoad = (ev) => {
-            // @ts-expect-error No overload matches this call.
-            reader.removeEventListener('loadend', handleLoad, false)
-
-            if (ev.error) {
-              return reject(ev.error)
-            }
-
-            resolve({
-              done: false,
-              value: new Uint8Array(/** @type {ArrayBuffer} */(reader.result))
-            })
-          }
-
-          // @ts-expect-error No overload matches this call.
-          reader.addEventListener('loadend', handleLoad)
-          reader.readAsArrayBuffer(chunk)
-        })
-      }
-    }
-
-    return {
-      [Symbol.asyncIterator]: () => {
-        return iterator
-      }
-    }
+    return browserStreamToIt(content.stream())
   }
 
   throw errCode(new Error(`Don't know how to convert ${content} into an async iterator`), 'ERR_INVALID_PARAMS')