On 2011-05-21 Mohan Arun wrote: >The places.sqlite file in the firefox profile folder may have become >large and fragmented. Yup, that'd be my guess too. Recently vacuumed my FF databases and it made a pretty big difference. You don't really need a tool besides sqlite3 to do this. This article is OSX-centric, but bash is bash: http://ryanschwartz.net/2009/03/19/adventures-in-firefox-placessqlite HTH, -Steve -- Steve Axthelm steveax at pobox.com