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Take a look at moztips.com article "Exporting Mozilla Bookmarks and History as RDF / XML".

It contains a JavaScript snippet to export Mozilla Suite (or Firefox) bookmarks and history into RDF/XML. This will gives you some more data to feed RDF applications and personal semantic desktops.

The code to decode Mozilla history file originally came from Mozilla Bug 241438. Quote:

"It is impossible for non-Mozilla programs to extract data from
~/.mozilla/*/*.slt/history.dat because it uses Mork, which is --
and I do not use these words lightly -- the single most braindamaged
file format that I have ever seen in my nineteen year career.

Please make history.dat contain something sane, like tab-delimited
fields, or XML."

Mork is a scary name. It's just funny to see text like "Please ... utilize an established, open standard format like valid XML for the history file and other places which are using mork." in the last comment - RDF would allow more uses for this data than just some XML tag soup.