Ubuntu 13.04 Suffers Performance

[Basil Chupin]

On 20/06/13 05:32, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 19/06/13 17:41, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>> Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>> I did read sometime ago that 'to make Firefox leaner and meaner'
>>>> one
>>>> should clear out the sqlite databases occasionally. The command to
>>>> do
>>>> this - in console as root, and put command all on the 1 (one) line:
>>>>
>>>> Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].ge
>>>> tSe
>>>> rvice(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.execu
>>>> teSi mpleSQL("VACUUM");
>>> Thanks for the command, but I don't understand what it does, so I
>>> won't try it. If I read "executeSimpleSQL("VACUUM")", I fear it
>>> would delete things I want to keep.
>> Well I did this 'vacuuming' a while back and I didn't notice any bad
>> effects. But make a backup of ~/.mozilla of course just in case :-) .
> While I don't expect any nefarious commands from you, I still don't like
> to run an unknown command as root on my main machine. Therefore I tried
> it with an Xubuntu 13.04 Live-CD and this is the result:
>
> xubuntu at xubuntu:~$ sudo su
> root at xubuntu:/home/xubuntu#
> Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-
> service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL("VACUUM");
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token
> `Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase'
> root at xubuntu:/home/xubuntu#
>
> Obviously there is something wrong with the command ...
>
> I suppose it is a command to be run within a database program (sqlite?),
> but I'm not familiar with any of them, so I don't even know if that is a
> wrong guess.

A search of the 'net shows the command in someone's blog but it is quite 
the same as the one I gave.

However, much better now as there is an add-on which does the job:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vacuum-places/

BC

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