Parsing Firefox history.dat file?

[Josef Lowder]

.
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:30:01 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote
> I want to parse or convert to text the Firefox history.dat file.  There
> is apparently a Windows application called Dork that does it.  But 
> I'm not on Windows.  :^)
> 
> All I want to do is extract a list of the URLs.  I'm wading through
> Google search results but it is probably faster to ask the group.

Well, you might write a little script that would 
1) strip the hard crs "\" and spaces out of the dat file,
2) replace the = with a cr
3) then do sort -u and thereby get a list of all the URLs