# Firefox Needs Better Memory Logging/Management Options

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/firefox-needs-better-memory-logging-management-options/105737>\
**Category:** Firefox Development\
**Created:** [September 22, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/firefox-needs-better-memory-logging-management-options/105737 "2022-09-22T17:20:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![dontsellorshare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dontsellorshare](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/dontsellorshare)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/firefox-needs-better-memory-logging-management-options/105737/1 "2022-09-22T17:20:51Z")

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Problem: If I leave certain tabs open (for over 8 hours), the memory usage can grow from less than .5 gigs, to over 7 gigs.

Before I continue, I know there is an addin (auto tab discard) that works really well.

But I think there needs to be a way to allow certain sites the ability to stay open as long as their memory usage doesn’t reach a certain limit.

And it would be nice to be able to set a limit across all other tabs, as a session-point-in-time limit.

That aside, I would like to be able to monitor (log) certain sites that I know will expand to 7gig+ to find out why they are using that much memory.

I’m a dev, but not a web dev, and I have looked at the _measure and save_ memory reports, but I need something that is specific to a single site and easier (for me) to understand.