MozillaHistoryView v1.20 - Mozilla/Firefox Browsers History Viewer
Copyright (c) 2007 - 2009 Nir Sofer

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Description

MozillaHistoryView is a small utility that reads the history data file (history.dat) of Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape Web browsers, and displays the list of all visited Web pages in the last days. For each visited Web page, the following information is displayed: URL, First visit date, Last visit date, Visit counter, Referrer, Title, and Host name.
You can also easily export the history data to text/HTML/Xml file.

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System Requirements

This utility works on any version of Windows, From Windows 98 to Windows Vista. For all Firefox/Mozilla versions except of Firefox 3, you can use this utility even if Firefox/Mozilla is not installed on your system, as long as you have the history file (history.dat) that you want to inspect. If you want to read the history file of Firefox 3 (places.sqlite file), Firefox 3 must be installed on your system.

Versions History

  • Version 1.20:
    • Added command-line options for sorting.
  • Version 1.18:
    • Added AutoComplete to the history filename combo-box.
  • Version 1.17:
    • MozillaHistoryView now detects any file with .sqlite extension as Firefox 3 filename.
  • Version 1.16:
    • Improved the Firefox 3 detection.
    • Display an error message when MozillaHistoryView failed to find the dll of SQLite database.
  • Version 1.15:
    • Fixed bug: MozillaHistoryView failed to open the history file of Firefox 3 (places.sqlite) when the browser was opened.
    • The 'Select History Filename' dialog-box is now resizable.
  • Version 1.14 - Fixed bug: MozillaHistoryView failed to work with Firefox 3.0.1
  • Version 1.13 - Fixed bug: Long URL were corrupted.
  • Version 1.12 - Decreased exe file size and added links in HTML report.
  • Version 1.11 - Added .sqlite filter to select file dialog-box.
  • Version 1.10 - Added support for Firefox 3.0 (places.sqlite file)
  • Version 1.05 - Fixed the text-length limit problem in the history file combo-box.
  • Version 1.04 - Fixed bug: The main window lost the focus when the user switched to another application and then returned back to MozillaHistoryView.
  • Version 1.03 - Added support for saving as comma-delimited text file.
  • Version 1.02 - Fixed bug: MozillaHistoryView failed to read history files that had one or more URLs with '(' character.
  • Version 1.01 - Fixed bug: MozillaHistoryView failed to read some history files.
  • Version 1.00 - First Release.

Using MozillaHistoryView

MozillaHistoryView doesn't require any installation process or additional DLL files. Just copy the executable file (MozillaHistoryView.exe) to any folder you like, and run it.
After you run it, the main window displays the list of visited Web pages loaded from the history.dat of the Mozilla/Firefox profile that you used in the last time. If you want to view the content of another history file, simply use the 'Select History File' option (Ctrl + H), or drag the history.dat filename from Explorer into the main window of MozillaHistoryView.
You can select one or more history items, and then export the list into text/HTML/Xml file ('Save Selected Items' option). You can also copy the selected items to the clipboard, and then paste them to Excel or to OpenOffice spreadsheet.

Command-Line Options

/stext <Filename> Save the list of all visited Web sites into a regular text file.
/stab <Filename> Save the list of all visited Web sites into a tab-delimited text file.
/scomma <Filename> Save the list of all visited Web sites into a comma-delimited text file.
/stabular <Filename> Save the list of all visited Web sites into a tabular text file.
/shtml <Filename> Save the list of all visited Web sites into HTML file (Horizontal).
/sverhtml <Filename> Save the list of all visited Web sites into HTML file (Vertical).
/sxml <Filename> Save the list of all visited Web sites to XML file.
/sort <column> This command-line option can be used with other save options for sorting by the desired column. If you don't specify this option, the list is sorted according to the last sort that you made from the user interface. The <column> parameter can specify the column index (0 for the first column, 1 for the second column, and so on) or the name of the column, like "URL" and "Last Visit Date". You can specify the '~' prefix character (e.g: "~Last Visit Date") if you want to sort in descending order. You can put multiple /sort in the command-line if you want to sort by multiple columns.

Examples:
MozillaHistoryView.exe /shtml "f:\temp\history.html" /sort 2 /sort ~1
MozillaHistoryView.exe /shtml "f:\temp\history.html" /sort "Last Visit Date"

/nosort When you specify this command-line option, the list will be saved without any sorting.
-file <History Filename> Start MozillaHistoryView with the specified history.dat filename.

Examples:
MozillaHistoryView.exe -file "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\test\p34kcd3y.slt\history.dat"
MozillaHistoryView.exe -file "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\test\p34kcd3y.slt\history.dat" /shtml c:\temp\mz.html
MozillaHistoryView.exe /stext c:\temp\mz.txt

Translating MozillaHistoryView to other languages

In order to translate MozillaHistoryView to other language, follow the instructions below:
  1. Run MozillaHistoryView with /savelangfile parameter:
    MozillaHistoryView.exe /savelangfile
    A file named MozillaHistoryView_lng.ini will be created in the folder of MozillaHistoryView utility.
  2. Open the created language file in Notepad or in any other text editor.
  3. Translate all string entries to the desired language. Optionally, you can also add your name and/or a link to your Web site. (TranslatorName and TranslatorURL values) If you add this information, it'll be used in the 'About' window.
  4. After you finish the translation, Run MozillaHistoryView, and all translated strings will be loaded from the language file.
    If you want to run MozillaHistoryView without the translation, simply rename the language file, or move it to another folder.

License

This utility is released as freeware. You are allowed to freely distribute this utility via floppy disk, CD-ROM, Internet, or in any other way, as long as you don't charge anything for this. If you distribute this utility, you must include all files in the distribution package, without any modification !

Disclaimer

The software is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The author will not be liable for any special, incidental, consequential or indirect damages due to loss of data or any other reason.

Feedback

If you have any problem, suggestion, comment, or you found a bug in my utility, you can send a message to nirsofer@yahoo.com
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MozillaHistoryView is also available in other languages. In order to change the language of MozillaHistoryView, download the appropriate language zip file, extract the 'mozillahistoryview_lng.ini', and put it in the same folder that you Installed MozillaHistoryView utility.

LanguageTranslated ByDateVersion
Brazilian PortugueseFabioGSI 09/07/2009 
DutchJan Verheijen 12/04/20091.18
Esperanto Michal "KuboF" Matusov 20/12/20081.18
French Poemes 20/10/2007 
German «Latino» auf WinTotal.de 30/12/20091.20
ItalianMauro Donadio 24/11/2007 
Russian A. Larionov, solokot 14/02/2009 
Simplified Chineserenda 15/10/2008 
Spanish desga2 01/12/2007 
ThaiE b o k ¡ º 05/10/20081.15
Turkish Nejdet ACAR 05/10/2007 
Valencian Amunt 16/10/2007