# Memory Leak Analyzer

> Continuously monitors per-tab memory indicators, detects leaks via anomaly detection, and provides root-cause attribution.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/memory-leak-analyzer](https://chrome-stats.com/d/memory-leak-analyzer)

## Overview

- **ID:** `memory-leak-analyzer`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Sam Milstead
- **Category:** privacy-security,tabs
- **Daily users:** 2
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-04-07
- **First published:** 2026-03-10
- **Size:** 85 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-15
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/memory-leak-analyzer/)

## Description

Features
<ul><li><strong>6 metric collectors</strong> — DOM nodes, event listeners, timers, detached DOM, resource entries, XHR/fetch lifecycle</li><li><strong>Anomaly detection</strong> — sliding-window linear regression with R-squared filtering and composite scoring</li><li><strong>Native messaging host</strong> — OS-level Firefox process memory via psutil</li><li><strong>Sidebar dashboard</strong> — live charts (uPlot), per-tab drill-down, alert feed</li><li><strong>Quick-glance popup</strong> — current tab metrics at a glance</li><li><strong>JSON export</strong> — full bug report with time-series data</li><li><strong>Test pages</strong> — purpose-built pages for each leak type</li></ul>

## Rankings

- #68,851 — Overall
- #27 — memory
- #35 — ai memory
- #90 — analyzer
- #130 — analyze

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `webNavigation`
- `storage`
- `alarms`
- `nativeMessaging`
- `notifications`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/memory-leak-analyzer)