The excellent BrowsingHistoryView is a very small utility that supports most modern browsers including Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge, and Safari. To read the HTML file, double-click on it and it will open with your default browser.

Make sure that the “Webpage, Complete” option is selected in the “Save as type” field and click on Save after choosing a location to store the history file.

Right-click on the page and select the “Save As” option.

Go to the History page by pressing Ctrl + H or by opening the menu and selecting the History > History options.

To save the history page, follow these steps:

The page will be a bit broken as it no longer contains the exact structure found in Chrome but it is still very readable as you can see below. With that said, Chrome’s History page is formatted in HTML like any other page so you can actually save it as a file in your computer and then open it in any browser (not just Chrome). Doing so is quite complex though so we will be looking at alternative methods which will make your life easier. Firefox and Chrome store browsing histories in the SQLite database format so you can technically grab those files and export them with another application into either text or HTML files. Today’s session is heavily focused at Chrome and Firefox as they both offer numerous tools for the purposes of extracting and exporting their browsing history.

Chrome browsing history by date