Comments on: Speed up your firefox (ever so slightly)

By: Dusty Wilson

Dusty Wilson — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:52:29 +0000

Thanks for this tip, Nick. I hadn’t really thought of doing this. I use many FF3 profiles for various tasks and noticed that some profiles are faster than others. After vacuum, it seems to start my primary profile a bit faster.

By: Andrew Z

Andrew Z — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:44:56 +0000

I notice vacuuming helps speed up the awesome bar, but you don't need command line ninja skills: BleachBit vacuums Firefox (and performs other cleaning tasks) from a GUI with just a click.

By: harnir

harnir — Mon, 11 May 2009 07:26:32 +0000

Thanks for the tip! Here’s a nice wrapper for it:

# Clean up Firefox sqlite3 databases
if [[ -x =firefox ]] && [[ -x =sqlite3 ]] ; then
function vacuum-firefox-databases () {
# Check if Firefox is running
ps -ef | grep firefox | grep -v grep > /dev/null && echo “Close all Firefox instances before issuing this command” && return

for i in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do
oldsize=`ls -lh $i | awk ‘{print $5}’`
printf ‘%25s: %4s\t’ `basename $i` $oldsize
sqlite3 $i VACUUM
ls -lh $i | awk ‘{print $5}’
done
}
fi