Can I save my private window web history in a file on my computer?

Question

Hello,
I was wondering if there was anyway I could save my private window web history to a file on my computer. Multiple people use this computer so I like to browse in private mode, however, there are some sites I'd like to be able to save as well.
Thanks for you time
Nikki

Answer 1

You can bookmark pages that you are interested in and want to keep.
You can save a copy of the current session data.
You can open the Browser Console (Firefox/Tools > Web Developer).
Paste the JavaScript code in the command line and press the Enter key to run the code.
*Toggle the devtools.chrome.enabled pref on the <b>about:config</b> page to true to enable the command line
*https://developer.mozilla.org/Tools/Browser_Console#Browser_Console_command_line
<pre><nowiki>var ss = Cc['@mozilla.org/browser/sessionstore;1'].getService(Ci.nsISessionStore);
var ssjsonstr = ss.getBrowserState();
var output = ssjsonstr;
var fp = Cc["@mozilla.org/filepicker;1"].createInstance(Ci.nsIFilePicker);
var stream = Cc["@mozilla.org/network/file-input-stream;1"].createInstance(Ci.nsIFileInputStream);
fp.init(window,"",Ci.nsIFilePicker.modeSave);
fp.defaultString="session.json";
if (fp.show() != fp.returnCancel){
var stream=Cc["@mozilla.org/network/file-output-stream;1"].createInstance(Ci.nsIFileOutputStream);
stream.init(fp.file,0x04|0x08,0644,0);
stream.write(output,output.length);
stream.close();
}</nowiki></pre>
You can look at this post in this MozillaZine forum thread about inspecting a sessionstore file.
*http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&p=12098147&start=60#p12098147