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Mastering Python for Networking and Security
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Mastering Python for Networking and Security

by José Manuel Ortega
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
426 pages
10h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Firefox forensics in Python with firefeed

Firefed is a tool, run in command-line mode, that allows you to inspect Firefox profiles. It is possible to extract stored passwords, preferences, plugins, and history (https://github.com/numirias/firefed).

These are the options available for the firefed script:

This tool reads the profiles.ini file that is located in your username firefox profile.

In window operating system this file is located in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox.

Also you can detect this folder with the %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles command.

More information can be found in the official documentation from the ...

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