Vacuuming Firefox’s sqlite3 databases

code,tips 17 November 2008 | 0 Comments

Firefox 3 was running very slow for me, so I desperately tried this, thinking that it wouldn’t make much difference. I was wrong; there was a noticeable speed improvement. From a bash shell:

find ~/.mozilla -iname '*.sqlite' -execdir sqlite3 {} 'vacuum;' \;

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