profile-cleaner(1)

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)

SEE ALSO
profile-sync-deamon (1)