Dumpzilla

Dumpzilla is a utility designed for cleaning up and managing Firefox profiles on Linux and Unix-based systems. It specifically focuses on clearing out unnecessary files, removing sensitive data, and helping maintain the privacy of Firefox users. The tool is mainly used for managing Firefox cache, session files, history, cookies, and other temporary data stored in Firefox profiles.

Here’s what Dumpzilla does in more detail:

To extract Firefox bookmarks, history, and cookies, you can directly query Firefox’s SQLite databases. Firefox stores this data in SQLite databases located in your Firefox profile folder.

Here’s how you can do it using sqlite3 to query the relevant SQLite databases.

1. Locate Firefox Profile

The Firefox profile is stored in a specific directory. On most Linux systems, it is located at:

~/.mozilla/firefox/your_profile_name.default/

2. Now use dumpzilla with this command and type in command line to get the information storecd in a text file format in the firefox browser's user path .

dumpzilla ~/.mozilla/firefox/ry9m8m2q.default-esr --History --Cookies --Bookmarks > firefox.txt

3.Finally the data is stored in the firefox.txt as we named To extract the data run dumpzilla <profile location> --arguments. There are lots of arguments available (take a look at the help page) and each argument extracts one type of data like addons, bookmarks, cookies, downloads, forms, history, passwords, permissions, etc. To extract all information available at once run dumpzilla without any argument. To export the information, run dumpzilla /home/$USER/.mozilla/firefox/xxxx.default --Export /root/desktop/mozilla. It'll save all the extracted information in /root/desktop/mozilla directory in JSON format.