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How to speed up the Smart Location Bar (Awesome Bar)?

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Mar 15, 20262721 views
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The Firefox Awesome Bar is indeed awesome. But, lately I see that it has become slow. On entering some characters it even freezes for a few seconds (freezing the entire browser). Why does it slow down? Is there a way to speed it up? (The OS is Windows XP.)

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You could VACUUM the SQLite databases that Firefox uses to store it's history and other data. Vacuuming optimizes the database tables inside the files. That speeds up Firefox and saves you some disk space. To vacuum the Firefox database files: Find …

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