Export Firefox's History

[lobo78]

I have looked all over the web and have not found a solution for this. Is there any kind of way (extension??) to export Firefox's history into a human readable file? It would be nice, also, if it could export for just one day. Thanks.

[Frank Lion]

Yeah. You send the person your history.dat file from your profile. They rename the one in their Firefox profile (with Firefox closed) as historyMINE.dat and put yours in.

They then restart Firefox, click the History Toolbar button, read what's there and say 'Hot damn!! that's nice! Hey Martha look at this! ....it's lobo78's Firefox history from yesterday!'

Anyway, that's how I'd do it...if anyone ever asked, which they haven't yet, to see my Firefox history.

[lobo78]

Thanks...I think. That sounded like a snide reply. I'm not sure how my question deserved that.

Anyway, I found a better way (at least until Firefox 3 is released). In case anyone else is interested, check out this perl script: http://www.jwz.org/hacks/mork.pl

[djmaniak777]

if you have a small history.dat file then the easiest way i found to do this was the following.
install the 'Enhanced History Manager' https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/420
and the 'OpenBook' https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/42 extensions.
in the openbook extension prefs set it to automatically add bookmarks to a set folder.
open your history in a window using Enhanced History Manager then select all the history items you want,then right click on that selection and choose bookmark these links.
they will all be added to the folder you set up with the openbook extension earlier.
only problem with this method is a large history.dat file will usually crash or stall firefox quite badly.

if you have a large history.dat file then the easiest way i found to do this was the following.
cory the history.dat file to a mozilla suite or a seamonkey browser profile.
in the bookmarks manager window click on the view menu and set a folder to be your new bookmark folder.
open your history window using then select all the history items you want,then right click on that selection and choose bookmark these links.
they will all be added to the folder you set up earlier.
only problem with this method is a very large history.dat file will usually stall the suite or seamonkey but will usually finish the job after a while.
also wiyh the above methods if you didnt want the history copied to a bookmarks file then you can also when in the history window after selecting the items you want then right click and choose 'copy link location' and paste the results into a plain text file.