Alessandro Melandri » speed http://www.melandri.net J2EE Developer & Photography enthusiast Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Speed up Firefox awesome bar http://www.melandri.net/2009/08/25/speed-up-firefox-awesome-bar/ http://www.melandri.net/2009/08/25/speed-up-firefox-awesome-bar/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:27:43 +0000 amelandri http://www.melandri.net/?p=489 Using the new Firefox awesome bar could result in a frustrating experience, because the SQLite database that holds all the data used by Firefox can get heavily defragmented.

You can get an huge speed improvement running this command inside the Firefox error console:

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

Put the command above in the code field (in a single line) and press the evaluate button.

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