I run Firefox for weeks at a time with about 40 tabs open, and I noticed it
slowing down as it chewed up more swap. I was able to "fix" this by using
cron to disable and enable swap hourly to force everything back into memory.
If that fails, it's time to stop and restart FF. I usually clean the
sqlite DBs by going to my FF profile directory and running this (buried
in a larger cleanup script):
for file in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.sqlite' -print); do
set X $(fuser $file 2>&1)
case "$#" in
3) echo "Sorry, $file is open - close Firefox"; break ;;
1|2) echo $file; echo 'vacuum;' | sqlite3 $file ;;
*) echo "[$@]: fuser $file did something weird"; break ;;
esac
done
Hope this helps.
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Karl Vogel I don't speak for anyone but myself
Your child may be an honor student but you're still an idiot.
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