Sankar P wrote: <snip>
Firefox becomes a hog over long usage (few months). The sqlite database after getting bloated will cause serious delays in startup.
You can shutdown firefox and from the ~/.mozilla directory run:
find . -name '*.sqlite' -exec sqlite3 '{}' 'VACUUM;' \;
This will compact the disk blocks of your sqlite database and from then on, firefox will start noticeably faster if your are a long time user.
I started a project to vaccumize sqlite databases (of various applications) periodically, as they are the culprit for slowness in most of the desktop applications - f-spot, banshee, firefox, evolution etc. I stopped working on it after I got moved out of the openSUSE teams. May be it is good to re-start the project. ( http://gitorious.org/vacuumizer )
The reasoning that I gave for slowness could be wrong and the actual issue may be different. But I have fixed, "firefox starts slow" issue for lots of users with this hack and couldn't resist replying.
A big hand to you :) I couldn't resist to try that, and, wow! That was cool shit. My installation is about a year old 11.0 and that really made FF run nicely. Thank you again, Vahis -- "Sunrise 4:23am (EEST), sunset 10:14pm (EEST) at Espoo, Finland (17:50 hours daylight)" http://waxborg.servepics.com Linux 2.6.25.20-0.1-default #1 SMP 2008-12-12 20:30:38 +0100 x86_64 5:10pm up 68 days 20:06, 11 users, load average: 0.66, 0.36, 0.21
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