Why graphically broken graphics do not work in Mozilla

Question

I get the following error when trying to open an html document with knitr in Mozilla Firefox. The error is the result of a graph element consisting of a plotly package.

 unknownError: error occurred while processing 'getCachedMessages: out of memory 

The entire contents of the rmarkdown file (by default, everything else):

 library(plotly) library(ggplot2) theData <- data.frame(A=1:26, B=letters, C=rnorm(26,19)) g<-ggplot(theData, aes(x=A, y=C)) + geom_point() ggplotly(g) 

I have the latest version of Firefox. It seems that I have no problem viewing other pages with plot elements. The page works in IE, no problem.

Answer 1

(apologies - I do not have enough points to answer in the comments)

I have the same problem with R + Rmd + plotly + Firefox (but not a problem with IE or Opera). The following questions were raised in Github / ropensci / plotly, but no solutions as of 2017-01-20:

• plotly + FlexDashboard + Firefox = huge memory consumption # 721
• Very Poor RMarkdown Performance in Firefox # 483 Library
• R: Big slowdown in Firefox but not in Chrome # 17 (github / plotly / plotly.js / issues / 17)