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NAME

profile-cleaner - Reduce the size of browser and some email program's 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 too.

SYNOPSIS

profile-cleaner [option]

DESCRIPTION

Profile-cleaner is a very simple shell script that will invoke sqlite3 to vacuum and reindex databases belonging to supported browsers and email clients. It is compatible with profile-sync-daemon so users need not stop psd before calling profile-cleaner. In fact, profiles will clean much faster when they are synced to tmpfs via psd.

OPTIONS

b: Clean brave's profile

c: Clean chromium's profile

ck: Clean conkeror's profile(s)*

e: Clean edge's profile

f: Clean firefox's profile(s)*

fa: Clean falkon's profile

gc: Clean google-chrome's profile

h: Clean heftig aurora's profile(s)*

i: Clean icecat's profile(s)*

id: Clean icedove's profile

ix: Clean Inox's profile

l: Clean Librewolf's profile

m: Clean midori's profile

o: Clean opera's profile

t: Clean thunderbird's profile(s)*

to: Clean tor-browser's profile

s: Clean seamonkey's profile(s)*

pm: Clean palemoon's profile(s)*

p: Clean the defined paths

v: Clean vivaldi's profile

*Profile-cleaner will parse the respective profiles.ini file and clean all profiles defined therein.

CONFIG FILE

Profile-cleaner will create $HOME/.config/profile-cleaner.conf the first time it is invoked. Users may define a color scheme therein based on their terminal background color. The default is a dark scheme for dark colored terminals. The file is commented and self-explanatory.

EXAMPLES

Clean all firefox profiles:

 $ profile-cleaner f

Clean chromium profile:

 $ profile-cleaner c

Clean the user defined profile:

 $ profile-cleaner p /path/to/profile

SUPPORTED BROWSERS AND EMAIL CLIENTS

Currently, the following are supported:

•: Brave (stable, beta, dev and nightly)

•: Chromium (stable,beta,dev)

•: Conkeror

•: Edge

•: Firefox (stable,beta,aurora)

•: Google-chrome (stable,beta,dev)

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

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

•: Midori

•: Newsbeuter

•: Opera (stable, next, and developer)

•: Seamonkey

•: Thunderbird

•: Tor-browser

•: Vivaldi (stable and snapshot)

SAMPLE OUTPUT

Sample output invoking the firefox option (your mileage will vary).

 $ 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

CONTRIBUTE

Should you wish to contribute to this code, please fork and send a pull request. Source is freely available on github: https://github.com/graysky2/profile-cleaner

BUGS

None known.

AUTHOR

graysky (therealgraysky AT proton DOT me)