Dump Firefox Session

Dump your current Firefox session, listing all windows and tabs, titles and URLs.

The script parses the recovery.jsonlz4 file from your Firefox profile directory.

Inspired by: https://gist.github.com/tmonjalo/33c4402b0d35f1233020bf427b5539fa

Prerequisites

You will need the Python3 LZ4 Compression Library:

# apt install python3-lz4

Usage

Edit the DEFAULT location of your Firefox profile's recovery.jsonlz4 file in the dump_firefox_session and save_firefox_session files.

Now, run it:

$ ./dump_firefox_session

********************************************************************************
1	swh/timemachine: A JACK aplication that can retrospectively record audio.	https://github.com/swh/timemachine
1	gbevin/SendMIDI: Multi-platform command-line tool to send out MIDI messages	https://github.com/gbevin/SendMIDI/
1	Water.css	https://watercss.netlify.app/
1	New Tab	about:newtab
********************************************************************************
2	Audio Injector	https://www.audioinjector.net/rpi-hat
2	streaming	https://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/streaming/
********************************************************************************
.
.
.
etc.

And to save a copy of the dump file, for archiving and viewing later:

$ ./save_firefox_session
firefox-recovery-2023-02-18T14:36:18.jsonlz4 written.

Finally, to view your saved dump file:

$ ./dump_firefox_session firefox-recovery-2023-02-18T14:36:18.jsonlz4