Speeding up Liferea

Posted by Anthony Batchelor on August 21st, 2009 filed in How-to, Ubuntu

Liferea was taking a couple of minutes to open for me, so I thought I’d look for a solution to that. I have >100 feeds, but I’m not about to cut the amount down (not addicted, honest).

Liferea stores a lot of information in an sqlite database. If sqlite databases aren’t vacuumed every now and then, they bloat and slow down.

Most people know about speeding up Firefox by vacuuming the sqlite databases every now and then. Well, the same can be done with Liferea.
Close Liferea and paste the following in a bash terminal.

sqlite3 ~/.liferea_1.4/liferea.db "VACUUM;"

Open up Liferea and you should notice it load much faster. Unless of course, it was fast to begin with.


One Response to “Speeding up Liferea”

  1. Ali Gündüz Says:
    August 22nd, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    Remember to check you liferea version first.

    I’m running liferea 1.6 and, therefore, the command for me is:

    sqlite3 ~/.liferea_1.6/liferea.db “VACUUM;”

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