Optimize your firefox profile databases for better performance

Since the release of version 3 , Firefox have been storing your bookmarks, cookies, rss feed information and such information in SQLite databases for better performance. On continuous usage, these databases can get fragmented and increase in size and may cause performance problems.

The databases can be defragmented again manually, which will optimize your firefox performance. Webupd8 explains how to perform this defragmentation in Windows, Linux and Mac OS. After trying out in a test system, ghacks author Martin, reported that it reduced the size of the firefox profile folder from 64.9MB to 53.4MB. He added that , heavy users with many bookmarks and rss feeds will most likely experience a large reduction in the size of the profile folder.

Source: ghacks