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profile-cleaner

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
CONFIG FILE
EXAMPLES
SUPPORTED BROWSERS AND EMAIL CLIENTS
SAMPLE OUTPUT
CONTRIBUTE
BUGS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO

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.

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

	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 (graysky AT archlinux DOT us)