Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)
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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.
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