August 25, 2009

Speed up Firefox

image Here is a handy tip to speed up your Firefox by cleaning up the SQLite Databases from it.

      • Open Firefox.
      • Open Error Console from the Tools menu.
      • Paste the following command on the Code box (paste as single line)

Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL("VACUUM");

  • Hit “Evaluate” button or simply enter.

Your screen might freeze for a moment. But after you are done you SQLite databases should be less fragmented than before, which helps to speed up Firefox.

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 26, 2009 at 12:24 AM

    its not working..

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  2. PGAugust 26, 2009 at 1:07 AM

    Hi, thanks for trying it out. Please note that this is one of the ways to speed up ur Firefox. But with this alone, you cannot expect it to start like a Notepad.
    As its my primary browser and I browse a lot, I had loads of information that had to be cleaned. And so, I found a considerable increase in speed with the above code.
    May be you can have a look at another post from me at http://givenntaken.blogspot.com/2009/07/delayed-firefox-startup-on-windows.html

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