Mozilla Firefox
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Mozilla Firefox is a Free and Open Source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
It can have many add-ons which give it extra capabilities.
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Anonymous Browsing
Mozilla Firefox can be used in anonymous browsing (see The Onion Router). However, it is known that Firefox reveals computer's uptime in TLS (SSL) "Client Hello" packets allowing investigator correlate anonymous and non-anonymous traffic [1].
This bug affects Firefox 2 (all versions) and Firefox 3 Beta3.
History
Firefox 3 stores the history of visited sites in a file named places.sqlite. This files uses the SQLite database format.
places.sqlite can be found in the following locations:
On Linux
/home/$USER/.mozilla/firefox/$PROFILE.default/places.sqlite
On MacOS-X
/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/$PROFILE.default/places.sqlite
On Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\%PROFILE%.default\places.sqlite
On Windows Vista, 7
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\%PROFILE%.default\places.sqlite
Timestamps
The places.sqlite uses the following timestamps.
moz_historyvisits.visit_date
The visit date and time values in the moz_historyvisits table are in (the number of) microseconds since January 1, 1970 UTC
Some Python code to do the conversion into human readable format:
date_string = datetime.datetime( 1970, 1, 1 )
+ datetime.timedelta( microseconds=timestamp )
