From ec1d55a52f87b2538babec02c9030b0ffc569673 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neven Sajko <s@purelymail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 05:29:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Profile: document heap snapshot viewing tools (#55743)

(cherry picked from commit 3a132cfc7661f850340d0360df6d3279d1aa7e16)
---
 stdlib/Profile/docs/src/index.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/stdlib/Profile/docs/src/index.md b/stdlib/Profile/docs/src/index.md
index 85a8452ab06df..c5b714da899bf 100644
--- a/stdlib/Profile/docs/src/index.md
+++ b/stdlib/Profile/docs/src/index.md
@@ -135,3 +135,8 @@ collector will not show up in the snapshot.
 
 The resulting heap snapshot file can be uploaded to chrome devtools to be viewed.
 For more information, see the [chrome devtools docs](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/memory-problems/heap-snapshots/#view_snapshots).
+An alternative for analyzing Chromium heap snapshots is with the VS Code extension
+`ms-vscode.vscode-js-profile-flame`.
+
+The Firefox heap snapshots are of a different format, and Firefox currently may
+*not* be used for viewing the heap snapshots generated by Julia.