Profile-cleaner

Use profile-cleaner to reduce the size of browser profiles by organizing their sqlite databases using sqlite3's vacuum and reindex functions.

##Packages by Distro

Arch via AUR Package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/profile-cleaner
Chakra via CCR Package: http://chakra-linux.org/ccr/packages.php?ID=4501
Debian: See instruction below
Fedora: http://repo-ck.com/bench.htm#Fedora_RPMs
Gentoo: See instructions below
Mint: See instruction below
Ubuntu: See instructions below
Void: in the Void repos.

###Debian Users To add the PPA (personal package archive) to your Debian (tested on squeeze) system, and to install psd, do the following as the root user:

echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/graysky/utils/ubuntu quantal main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graysky.list
echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/graysky/utils/ubuntu quantal main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graysky.list
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys FF7F9516
apt-get update
apt-get install profile-cleaner

###Gentoo Users To add the overlay to your Gentoo system:

layman -a laurentb
emerge profile-cleaner

###Mint Users To add the PPA (personal package archive) to your Mint system (tested on 14.1), and to install psd:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graysky/utils
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install profile-sync-daemon

###Ubuntu Users To add the PPA (personal package archive) to your Ubuntu (packages available for Lucid and newer) system, and to install psd:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graysky/utils
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install profile-cleaner

###Other Distros If you are interested in packaging psd for your favorite distro, please contact me.

Dependencies

bash
bc
findutils
sqlite
parallel

Sample Output and Results Using an "Uncleaned" Firefox Profile:

Size before: 154.17 Mbytes
Size after:  99.11 Mbytes

$ 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

Speed Comparison

28-Nov-2012 Profile-cleaner has been rewritten to use GNU Parallel for processing.

Here is a contrived example cleaning 6 firefox profiles comparing the classical version of Profile-cleaner which used for loops to process profiles to the new version:

There are a total of 312 M in the 6 "dirty" profiles.
Test machine is an Intel 3770K @ 4.50 GHz.
After cleaning there is a total of 213 M in the 6 "clean" profiles.

new 4.07s user 0.42s system 318% cpu 1.411 total

old 8.15s user 0.43s system 95% cpu 8.942 total

Your mileage may vary.

laurentb/profile-cleaner

Profile-cleaner

Dependencies

Sample Output and Results Using an "Uncleaned" Firefox Profile:

Speed Comparison