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From: Steven on 3 Jun 2010 05:40 On Thu, June 3, 2010 11:15, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Steven wrote: >> This might be what you are looking for: >> http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/07/vacuum-your-firefox-databases-for-better-performance/ >> Cleaning up firefox/iceweasel's internal databses helps a lot > It had some non-negligible influence. Thanks! > > No problem :) It's quite easy to do, just install sqlite3 using apt-get/aptitude/synaptic. Next, execute the sqlite vacuum command on each database (after closing you browser) The following command will do this for all sqlite databases you might have in there (different profiles). for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f 'VACUUM;'; done You might need to change the path for iceweasel, I'm not on my Debian box right now. If I remember correctly, this is done automatically once in a while starting with 3.5 or 3.6. Yes, I experienced this problem as well, a lot of people did I guess, perhaps you can put this in a small script and run it as a cronjob or when you log on. Kind regards, Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/45546.91.183.48.98.1275557060.squirrel(a)stevenleeuw.kwik.to
From: Merciadri Luca on 3 Jun 2010 05:50
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steven wrote: > On Thu, June 3, 2010 11:15, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Steven wrote: >>> This might be what you are looking for: >>> http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/07/vacuum-your-firefox-databases-for-better-performance/ >>> Cleaning up firefox/iceweasel's internal databses helps a lot >> It had some non-negligible influence. Thanks! >> >> > > No problem :) It's quite easy to do, just install sqlite3 using > apt-get/aptitude/synaptic. Next, execute the sqlite vacuum command > on each database (after closing you browser) The following command > will do this for all sqlite databases you might have in there > (different profiles). > > for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f 'VACUUM;'; > done > > You might need to change the path for iceweasel, I'm not on my > Debian box right now. If I remember correctly, this is done > automatically once in a while starting with 3.5 or 3.6. Yes, I > experienced this problem as well, a lot of people did I guess, > perhaps you can put this in a small script and run it as a cronjob > or when you log on. Thanks, Steven. What I meant by `non-negligible influence' is that I executed the whole on my sqlite files, and that the FF process then goes faster for starting & closing. Yes, I'm going to put this as a cronjob. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkwHeWoACgkQM0LLzLt8MhxWOwCZAVH9NenAFszbeKA+Rl9rW+1r X24An1681VpbRaCRJCIUn77u0wC3Yy9O =OPB+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C07796A.6090508(a)student.ulg.ac.be |