Firefox 3 stores pretty much all user data in an internal SQLite database. This database includes, but is not limited to, bookmarks, history, passwords and add-on data. Of course, over time this can eventually require maintenance:

As any other database, SQLite databases become fragmented over time and empty spaces appear all around. But, since there are no managing processes checking and optimizing the database, these factors eventually result in a performance hit. So, a good way to improve startup and some other bookmarks and history related tasks is to defragment and trim unused space from these databases.

So much like your file system needs to be defragged every now and then, so should your Firefox database. This article titled “Speedup Firefox and Surf Web Faster-Clean SQLite Database” explains exactly how to do it.

The process is very simple and shouldn’t take more than a minute or so to run it. So if you haven’t ever done this, go ahead and give it a run.

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