profile-cleaner(1)

1profile-cleaner(1)                                          profile-cleaner(1)
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NAME

6       profile-cleaner  -  Reduce the size of browser and some email program's
7       profiles by organizing their sqlite databases  using  sqlite3's  vacuum
8       and  reindex  functions.  The term "browser" is used loosely since pro‐
9       file-cleaner happily works on some email clients too.
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SYNOPSIS

12       profile-cleaner [option]
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DESCRIPTION

16       Profile-cleaner is a very simple shell script that will invoke  sqlite3
17       to  vacuum  and  reindex  databases belonging to supported browsers and
18       email clients. It is compatible with profile-sync-daemon so users  need
19       not  stop  psd  before  calling profile-cleaner. In fact, profiles will
20       clean much faster when they are synced to tmpfs via psd.
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OPTIONS

23       b      Clean brave's profile
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25       c      Clean chromium's profile
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27       ck     Clean conkeror's profile(s)*
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29       f      Clean firefox's profile(s)*
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31       fa     Clean falkon's profile
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33       gc     Clean google-chrome's profile
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35       h      Clean heftig aurora's profile(s)*
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37       i      Clean icecat's profile(s)*
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39       id     Clean icedove's profile
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41       ix     Clean Inox's profile
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43       m      Clean midori's profile
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45       o      Clean opera's profile
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47       t      Clean thunderbird's profile(s)*
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49       to     Clean tor-browser's profile
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51       s      Clean seamonkey's profile(s)*
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53       pm     Clean palemoon's profile(s)*
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55       p      Clean the defined paths
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57       v      Clean vivaldi's profile
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59              *Profile-cleaner will parse the respective profiles.ini file and
60              clean all profiles defined therein.
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CONFIG FILE

63       Profile-cleaner   will  create  $HOME/.config/profile-cleaner.conf  the
64       first time it is invoked. Users may define a color scheme therein based
65       on  their  terminal  background color. The default is a dark scheme for
66       dark colored terminals. The file is commented and self-explanatory.
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EXAMPLES

69       Clean all firefox profiles:
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71        $ profile-cleaner f
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73              Clean chromium profile:
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77              Clean the user defined profile:
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79        $ profile-cleaner p /path/to/profile
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SUPPORTED BROWSERS AND EMAIL CLIENTS

83       Currently, the following are supported:
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85       ·  Brave (stable, beta, dev and nightly)
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87       ·  Chromium (stable,beta,dev)
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89       ·  Conkeror
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91       ·  Firefox (stable,beta,aurora)
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93       ·  Google-chrome (stable,beta,dev)
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95       ·  Heftig's   version   of   Aurora    (https://bbs.archlinux.org/view‐
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98       ·  Inox (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=198763)
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100       ·  Midori
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102       ·  Newsbeuter
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104       ·  Opera (stable, next, and developer)
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110       ·  Tor-browser
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112       ·  Vivaldi (stable and snapshot)
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SAMPLE OUTPUT

115       Sample output invoking the firefox option (your mileage will vary).
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117        $ profile-cleaner f
118        /home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/cookies.sqlite reduced by .87 Mbytes
119        /home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/signons.sqlite reduced by .41 Mbytes
120        /home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/downloads.sqlite reduced by .56 Mbytes
121        /home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/chromeappsstore.sqlite reduced by .03 Mbytes
122        /home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/urlclassifier3.sqlite reduced by 43.10 Mbytes
123        /home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/formhistory.sqlite reduced by .11 Mbytes
124        /home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/addons.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes
125        /home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/permissions.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes
126        /home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/content-prefs.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes
127        /home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/extensions.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes
128        /home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/webappsstore.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes
129        /home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/OfflineCache/index.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes
130        /home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/search.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes
131        /home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/places.sqlite reduced by 9.98 Mbytes
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133        firefox profile reduced by 55.06 Mbytes
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CONTRIBUTE

137       Should you wish to contribute to this code, please fork and send a pull
138       request.     Source     is     freely     available     on      github:
139       https://github.com/graysky2/profile-cleaner
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BUGS

142       None known.
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AUTHOR

145       graysky (graysky AT archlinux DOT us)
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