The memory profiling feature was actually removed lately, because it never really worked as expected and Mozilla now removed the related APIs in favor of creating new ones. See
issue 6726 for more info.
There's already a request for reimplementing and improving this. See
issue 4529. If you want to help us with that e.g. by providing information and mockups, you're welcome to do so. Though note that this feature is quite complex and isn't really something for starters.
If you want to make contributions to Firebug, I suggest you pick a
simpler issue for the beginning.
Sebastian