https://github.com/graysky2/profile-cleaner

Simple script to vacuum and reindex sqlite databases used by Firefox and by Chrome/Chromium.
https://github.com/graysky2/profile-cleaner

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Simple script to vacuum and reindex sqlite databases used by Firefox and by Chrome/Chromium.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/graysky2/profile-cleaner
• Owner: graysky2
• License: mit
• Created: 2012-08-31T11:39:59.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-27T12:28:23.000Z (12 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-06T00:38:31.234Z (4 days ago)
• Language: Shell
• Homepage: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=148062
• Size: 110 KB
• Stars: 205
• Watchers: 17
• Forks: 15
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Profile-cleaner

Use profile-cleaner to reduce the size of browser profiles by organizing their sqlite databases using sqlite3's vacuum and reindex functions. The term "browser" is used loosely since profile-cleaner happily works on some email clients and newsreaders too.

## Supported Browsers

* Brave (stable, beta, dev and nightly) (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brave-bin)

* Chromium (stable, beta, and dev)

* Conkeror

* Edge

* Falkon

* Firefox (stable, beta, and aurora)

* Google-chrome (stable, beta, and dev)

* Heftig's version of Aurora (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117157)

* Icecat

* Icedove

* Inox (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=198763)

* Librewolf

* Midori

* Newsboat

* Palemoon

* Qupzilla

* Seamonkey

* Thunderbird

* Tor-browser

* Vivaldi (stable and snapshot)

## Documentation

Consult the man page.

## Installation from Source

To build from source, see the included INSTALL text document.

## Installation from Distro Packages

* ![logo](http://www.monitorix.org/imgs/archlinux.png "arch logo")Arch: in official [repo](https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/profile-cleaner/)

* ![logo](https://linux-cdn.softpedia.com/screenshots/ico/Fedora-Games-Spin.gif "fedora logo")Fedora: in official [repo](https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/profile-cleaner)

* ![logo](http://i.imgur.com/ooVjgFG.png "gentoo logo")Gentoo: See instructions below

* ![logo](https://i.postimg.cc/13Jzxh5C/nix.png "nixos logo")NixOS: in the official [repo](https://search.nixos.org/packages?query=profile-cleaner)

* ![logo](http://wiki.codeblocks.org/images/8/8b/Slackware-logo_32.png "slack logo")Slackware: on [slackbuilds](http://slackbuilds.org/apps/profile-cleaner/)

### Gentoo Users

Profile cleaner is in the main repo:

    emerge -av app-admin/profile-cleaner

### Other Distros

If you are interested in packaging profile-cleaner for your favorite distro, please contact me.

## Dependencies

* bash

* bc

* findutils

* sqlite

* parallel

## Sample Output and Results Using an "Uncleaned" Firefox Profile:

	Size before: 154.17 Mbytes

	Size after:  99.11 Mbytes

	$ profile-cleaner f

	/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/cookies.sqlite reduced by .87 Mbytes

	/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/signons.sqlite reduced by .41 Mbytes

	/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/downloads.sqlite reduced by .56 Mbytes

	/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/chromeappsstore.sqlite reduced by .03 Mbytes

	/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/urlclassifier3.sqlite reduced by 43.10 Mbytes

	/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/formhistory.sqlite reduced by .11 Mbytes

	/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/addons.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes

	/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/permissions.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes

	/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/content-prefs.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes

	/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/extensions.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes

	/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/webappsstore.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes

	/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/OfflineCache/index.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes

	/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/search.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes

	/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/places.sqlite reduced by 9.98 Mbytes

	firefox profile reduced by 55.06 Mbytes

## Speed Comparison

28-Nov-2012		Profile-cleaner has been rewritten to use GNU Parallel for processing.

Here is a contrived example cleaning 6 firefox profiles comparing the classical version of Profile-cleaner which used for loops to process profiles to the new version:

* There are a total of 312 M in the 6 "dirty" profiles.

* Test machine is an Intel 3770K @ 4.50 GHz.

* After cleaning there is a total of 213 M in the 6 "clean" profiles.

new 4.07s user 0.42s system 318% cpu 1.411 total

old 8.15s user 0.43s system 95% cpu 8.942 total

Your mileage may vary.