profile-cleaner(1)                                          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.

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:

       o  Brave (stable, beta, dev and nightly)

       o  Chromium (stable,beta,dev)

       o  Conkeror

       o  Edge

       o  Firefox (stable,beta,aurora)

       o  Google-chrome (stable,beta,dev)

       o  Heftig's version of Aurora
          (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117157)

       o  Inox (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=198763)

       o  Midori

       o  Newsbeuter

       o  Opera (stable, next, and developer)

       o  Seamonkey

       o  Thunderbird

       o  Tor-browser

       o  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)

                                 05 April 2023              profile-cleaner(1)