How can I export all my open Firefox Tabs to a text file?


Question

I've been trying to find a method to export all my currently open tabs in the Android Firefox browser. Unfortunately this seem impossible from default browser installation and very hard to do from command line as the SQLite3 database that Firefox is using, contains too many tables and hard to find the right query.



Apparently this is possible for Google Chrome using THESE hacks.



I would like to have each URL on a separate line in a text file.


Answer

Note: this solution requires a rooted Android.



In a terminal emulator app, execute:



(Requires Busybox if running Android 5.1.1 or below. For Marshmallow, remove the term busybox from the following command.)




su
content query --uri content://org.mozilla.firefox.db.tabs/tabs/ --projection url | busybox cut -d '=' f 2 > /sdcard/firefox_tabs.txt


Explanation of the second command:




  • content query: to query a Content Provider

  • org.mozilla.firefox.db.tabs: a content provider from Firefox.

  • --projection url: list data from the url column only



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Or if you have the sqlite3 tool in Android, then you can do:




su
sqlite3 /data/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/mozilla/*.default/browser.db "SELECT url FROM tabs ORDER BY position" > /sdcard/firefox_tabs.txt


I've assumed that you have a single Firefox profile and its name has not been altered. If you've a multi-profile setup or if you did change the profile's name, then instead of *.default provide the correct name of the profile of whose tabs you want in your list.


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