I did some research on my prolonged firefox startup time and alas I found something cool:
Vacuum your Firefox databases
Basically you have to do the following:
- Install sqlite3:
sudo apt-get install sqlite3
- Vacuum your Firefox DBs:
find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name "*.sqlite" -exec echo sqlite3 \{\} VACUUM \;
- Reindex your Firefox DBs:
find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name "*.sqlite" -exec echo sqlite3 \{\} REINDEX \;