hello heids2503, to my knowledge the information how long you're staying on a given site isn't stored at all in firefox, so it isn't possible to retrieve that form your history.

thanks for the reply and although i suppose i have to accept it - it would have been absolutely FANTASTIC. thanks for the speedy reply, all's well i will survive!!

Go to the Mozilla Add-ons Web Page. There are some add-ons that will alert you when you are someplace too long. Maybe one of them has some kind if log you can use.

Although the Library dialog does not show every request for a page, only the most recent, the places.sqlite database that stores history can produce a chronological lists of requests. In theory, then, you could see the interval between page requests, but you might not have spent the entire interval viewing the page (i.e., coffee break), and if you opened many links at once and switched between them, Firefox does not record that.

One time tracking package we evaluated at my office includes a feature to record the title of the active window (which I think would include the active tab) as it changes. This allows you to reconstruct the timetable for the work you did during the day. I suspect it might not be popular with all users.

We didn't buy that program, but I see similar software out on the web that you could investigate if you like. For example:

• TimeTracker

• Logging Active Window Titles - CodeProject

I haven't tried these myself.