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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 3rd, 2009
  • Comments: 6

SpeedyFox Optimizes Firefox Databases To Speed Up The Web Browser

The switch to storing data in SQLite databases has caused a problem for Firefox users who use the web browser heavily. The databases grow over time and reduce the startup time and responsiveness of the web browser due to fragmentation. This can be largely attributed to the fact that Firefox will not optimize the databases [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 22nd, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Optimize Firefox Databases With Vacuum Places

The Mozilla Firefox development team switched to SQlite databases for data storage in Firefox 3. One problem that arose because of this switch was an increasing Firefox profile folder size as there was no build in way to optimize the SQlite databases regularly. We reviewed a solution to this problem a while ago (read: optimize [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 6th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

Create Firefox Smart Bookmarks

Firefox 3 changed the bookmarking system from using html files to using sqlite databases. One benefit of using databases is the possibility to run custom queries. Three of the so called smart bookmarks are already available after installing Firefox3: Most Visited, Recently Bookmarked and Recent Tags all make use of database queries to provide the [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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