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List all Firefox tabs with title and URL
#! /usr/bin/env python3
"""
List all Firefox tabs with title and URL
Supported input: json or jsonlz4 recovery files
Default output: title (URL)
Output format can be specified as argument
"""
import platform
import sys
import pathlib
import lz4.block
import json
if platform.system() == 'Windows':
path = pathlib.Path(os.environ['APPDATA']).joinpath('Mozilla\\Firefox\\Profiles')
elif platform.system() == 'Darwin':
path = pathlib.Path.home().joinpath('Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles')
else:
path = pathlib.Path.home().joinpath('.mozilla/firefox')
files = path.glob('*default*/sessionstore-backups/recovery.js*')
try:
template = sys.argv[1]
except IndexError:
template = '%s (%s)'
for f in files:
b = f.read_bytes()
if b[:8] == b'mozLz40\0':
b = lz4.block.decompress(b[8:])
j = json.loads(b)
for w in j['windows']:
for t in w['tabs']:
i = t['index'] - 1
if len(t['entries']) > i:
print(template % (
t['entries'][i]['title'],
t['entries'][i]['url']
))
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tpo commented Jan 20, 2026

My version that supports templates where the order of the title and the url is inverted (as in <a href="url">title</a>): https://github.com/tpo/little_shell_scripts/blob/master/ff_tabs_list_in

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