profile-cleaner1
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.
Usage
profile-cleaner [option]
Overview
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.
Make sure that target browsers or email clients are not running when invoking profile-cleaner. Failure to do so will result in the open files NOT getting cleaned and reindexed.
Options
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Clean brave's profile |
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Clean chromium's profile |
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Clean conkeror's profile(s)* |
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Clean edge's profile |
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Clean firefox's profile(s)* |
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Clean falkon's profile |
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Clean google-chrome's profile |
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Clean heftig aurora's profile(s)* |
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Clean icecat's profile(s)* |
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Clean icedove's profile |
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Clean Inox's profile |
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Clean Librewolf's profile |
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Clean midori's profile |
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Clean opera's profile |
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Clean thunderbird's profile(s)* |
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Clean tor-browser's profile |
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Clean seamonkey's profile(s)* |
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Clean palemoon's profile(s)* |
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Clean the defined paths |
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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:
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Brave (stable, beta, dev and nightly) |
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Chromium (stable,beta,dev) |
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Firefox (stable,beta,aurora) |
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Google-chrome (stable,beta,dev) |
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Heftig's version of Aurora (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117157) |
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Inox (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=198763) |
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Opera (stable, next, and developer) |
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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