Chris' Blog » performance http://www.cs278.org/blog “A metal loving, web developing, open source contributor.” Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:36:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Vacuum Firefox on Ubuntu http://www.cs278.org/blog/2009/10/15/vacuum-firefox-on-ubuntu/ http://www.cs278.org/blog/2009/10/15/vacuum-firefox-on-ubuntu/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:14:04 +0000 Chris http://www.cs278.org/blog/?p=497 Continue reading →]]> It was suggested to me to use vacuum places to improve my Firefox awesome bar performance, as I’m still using Firefox 3.0 which is packaged with Jaunty; I do have 3.5 installed I just use it for testing sites at the moment. However realising that I didn’t need an addon a single line of bash will probably do what I want I headed to Google and found an explaining it all and a suitable one-liner to optimise all my Firefox SQLite DBs.

You will need the sqlite3 package installed and you should close Firefox prior to running the command.

for i in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do echo "VACUUM;" | sqlite3 $i ; done
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