After a short look at the history.dat file of the Mozilla FireFox browser I was convinced: the person who had thought up the file format is insane, and it would take quite some time to program my own parsing solution using the Perl programming language.
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Jamie Zawinski's LiveJournal has a nice rant on the file format, and gives some pointers to documentation and, hurray, a Perl program to parse the insane Mork file format.
After I tweaked the mork Perl program written by Jamie a little, it produced the desired output.
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