Tag: VACUUM

I have a love/hate relationship with Firefox. I love the functionality it gives me, but I hate how over time it slows down and acts like a bloated pig. Two of the biggest factors that will make Firefox drag are the amount of history it maintains, and defragmentation of the Places database. We've already told you how to fix both of those issues, but it turns out that there is now an extension that ...

A while back, Jason mentioned giving your Firefox performance a boost by limiting the length of time items are saved in history. At Mozilla Links, they've shared another handy tip from Mozilla developer Jeremy Orem. His advice: take a vacuum to your SQLite databases. Here's how to do it: Open the Firefox tools menu and click on error console. Paste the following command into the code ...

Not with a real vacuum, silly, but with SQLite's vacuum command! If you fancy yourself a bit of Terminal adventure, this simple command can supposedly increase Mail's responsiveness. Especially helpful if you have a hefty mailbox like I do. Quit Mail (if it's open) Open Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities) At the shell prompt, type: sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index and press ...