Comments on: How to export Firefox’s history to a text file

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:06:00 +0000

In the latter case you don’t have to shutdown Firefox but you can just create a copy of the history.dat file and use the copy with DORK.
Thanks for this wonderful tool.

By: dglp

dglp — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:31:00 +0000

Interesting stuff here. I am looking for a way to graph my browsing history and haven’t had any joy finding explanations of history.dat. And here we are at Firefox 2.0 and Mork is still in place.

Are there any straightforward ways of converting the mork file into a format that will preserve the number of visits per site?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:23:00 +0000

if you get the “uncaught exception: Einem Skript von “http://philwilson.org” wurden UniversalXPConnect Sonderrechte verweigert.” error, this is a security issue. Try adding the following lines to your user.js file located in your profile dir (create it, if it does not exist):

user_pref(“capability.principal.philwilson.id”, “http://philwilson.org”);
user_pref(“capability.principal.philwilson.granted”, “UniversalXPConnect”);

Save the file, restart Firefox. This should work. But be careful with granting rights to pages you don’t know and trust!

By: Jim-BobH

Jim-BobH — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:53:00 +0000

Thanks to Ed Mullen for enabling me to access Dork and to its author Keith Anderson.

Suggestions to Keith and other users:

1. Every time you run it it will OVERWRITE any history.txt file it previously created, so if you don't want to lose your "history history" you had better move or rename the existing one.

(The above fact is in the Dork readme.txt but the following warning is not.)

2. If you run it with Firefox running you will get:

ERROR: Could not open file. Error 32

which apparently means the file is in use by another application (in this case, I closed Firefox and Dork seems to work perfectly).

IHTH

Jim

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:59:00 +0000

Ace, thanks for that Ed.

By: Ed Mullen

Ed Mullen — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:03:00 +0000

I’ve made DORK available at:

http://edmullen.net/utility/dork.zip

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:11:00 +0000

Hi Ben, thanks very much for that useful update!

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:22:00 +0000

http://www.sunturbine.com/dork/ now redirects to http://www.purescience.com/dork/, which is 404. The “Dork” conversion utility is now hard to find; a copy of it is on Bug 242438

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:28:00 +0000

Can someone send a solution for a mac user. I have students playing in bad sites and do not want to accuse the wrong one. You can email an answer to mmorse@hotmail.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:14:00 +0000

Hi, I’m just a blue collar guy who likes to turn his history off for the same reason as mentioned before. I don’t no how though. Can someone help me with this? Much appreciated