Firefox performance tip [Linux and OS X]

[MaRKiV]

Found this online and thought i can share it with our TE folks... :hap2:

If your Firefox, like mine, insists on doing huge amounts of I/O when closing, as well as acts slow when using the awesomebar, try the following (close down Firefox completely first):

for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f 'VACUUM;'; done

This command seems to compacts your SQLite databases and has Noticable gains..

The Author claims its harmless.. Original Link here

If u get an error like

SQL error: near “‘VACUUM”: syntax error

bash: ’: command not found

Then try copy/paste to a text editor. after that copy paste from the text editor.

For OS X:

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/

for f in */*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f 'VACUUM;'; done

And there is a process of compacting for Windows too in the comment section.. if you are interested.

 

[nitant]

For OSX the correct commands are

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/
for f in */*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f 'VACUUM;'; done

 

[MaRKiV]

For OSX the correct commands are

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/
for f in */*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f 'VACUUM;'; done

Thanks for correcting.. corrected my original post..