How to unify History from Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox

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2014-07
  • Nick

    I'm using Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Each for different things. Is it possible to somehow "unify" browsing history from bouth of these browsers so that sites I have visited while on Firefox also would be stored in Explorers history and vice versa?

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  • Julian Knight

    In short, no.

    IE is well integrated to the OS and uses its own temporary folder areas. Firefox is designed to be cross-OS and uses a very different folder structure.

    What is more, they both use different file formats.

    The only way to do this would be to have an application that trawled through the history folders of each, parsed the data and created its own history list. Possibly, you could do this with something like Microsoft Excel though it would be better done in PowerShell or a scripting language.


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  • Thor

    As far as I am aware, the closest you're going to get to such an application at the current moment is with Win+R and enter

    mshta.exe http://www.google.com/

    There is however no navigation, no menus, no nothing. It doesn't integrate with anything, and is as simple as it can get. You get your website opened, that's it.

    The way to use this would be to create a shortcut, add a nice icon and voila, you've at least got something.

    Warning: There are no Internet Explorer features with this application. It uses the Trident rendering engine, and that's all. If you can use something else, please do.