Reviews for Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine by Internet Archive
32 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by bharatgkmsrgroup, 6 years agoIt will be better if this extension have a auto show option
- Rated 3 out of 5by Rory O’Kane, 6 years agoThis extension worked great for a long time, only showing the 404 detected popup when I actually encountered a missing page. However, I recently updated from Firefox 56 to Firefox 63 (which may have updated the extension too), and that caused the extension to start detecting spurious 404s, as other reviews describe. When this extension works, it is a convenient way to open the WayBack Machine, but I’m going to have to disable the extension for now until it gets fixed.
On older Firefox versions I used to use the add-on Resurrect Pages by Anthony Lieuallen. I stopped using it because it became incompatible with my Firefox version, but apparently it supports the latest Firefox version again. It may be worth checking out. - Rated 3 out of 5by Jacktose, 6 years agoIt's nice to be able to look up or save a page from the button. The automatic feature might be helpful if it was not a false positive 95% of the time. An option to turn that off would be worth a star to this review.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Eli B., 6 years agoUseful, but there are too many cases where are page just happens to load too slowly for the extension's taste so it pops up offering to use the service, blocking the entire page.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13885219, 6 years agoIt would be nice if it would really only show up when the page is 404 and not because the page is coincidentally loading slowly.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13832595, 6 years agoA nice extension. Generally works but occasionally has hiccups.
That said, updating to the newest version needlessly cluttered up my context menu with duplicates of the stuff available through the browser action (that I currently have to resort to userChrome.css to remove) and non-optionally added a requirement for notification privileges with no option to turn off whatever annoying popup it's planning to display.
I'm giving it a 3 out of 5 for those warts. - Rated 3 out of 5by Sebastian Krzyszkowiak, 7 years agoPlease don't change the URL. Please. That's horrible UX, makes me want to disable the extension right away.