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Wayback Machine by Internet Archive
Review by Firefox user 11913688
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 11913688, 7 years agoThis WayBackMachine extension is nearly mandatory on the modern web. There are so many pages nowadays that have disappeared or changed that I find myself constantly having to look up archived copies. This extension saves me the tedium of repeatedly copying a URL, going to archive.org, then pasting it into the search box.
There are some downsides, but this is such a needed feature that I have to give it five stars.
Downside 1: this extension adds yet another button to my already cluttered toolbar. I'd much rather that it showed up in the context menu (right click) and could be bound to keyboard shortcuts.
Suggestion: Perhaps the next version could implement both interfaces, but allow either to be disabled in the preferences.
Downside 2: this only checks archive.org. While that is my preferred site, other extensions also have the ability to check cached versions from Google, Coral, and other search engines.
Downside 3a: While this extension's ability to automatically detect 404 (not found) errors is a nice feature, it doesn't seem to work everywhere (try youtube.com/thisurlreturns404).
Downside 3b: Even worse, some websites don't like returning 404, and instead return 301 (moved permanently) or 302 (redirect). For example, try ebay.com/notfound, which redirects the URL to pages.ebay.com/messages/page_not_found.html?abigbunchofgarbage and then returns 200 (success). On a site like that, if you then click WaybackMachine → Recent Version, you'll either be told "URL not found in wayback archives" or be shown an archived copy of the wrong page.
Suggestion: Perhaps a future version of this extension could make note of redirections and, when the WayBackMachine is used, the requested URLs would be tried in FIFO order (until one of them succeeds or they all fail).
Downside 4: If the lookup at archive.org fails, an error dialog will pop up with an annoying alert sound.
There are some downsides, but this is such a needed feature that I have to give it five stars.
Downside 1: this extension adds yet another button to my already cluttered toolbar. I'd much rather that it showed up in the context menu (right click) and could be bound to keyboard shortcuts.
Suggestion: Perhaps the next version could implement both interfaces, but allow either to be disabled in the preferences.
Downside 2: this only checks archive.org. While that is my preferred site, other extensions also have the ability to check cached versions from Google, Coral, and other search engines.
Downside 3a: While this extension's ability to automatically detect 404 (not found) errors is a nice feature, it doesn't seem to work everywhere (try youtube.com/thisurlreturns404).
Downside 3b: Even worse, some websites don't like returning 404, and instead return 301 (moved permanently) or 302 (redirect). For example, try ebay.com/notfound, which redirects the URL to pages.ebay.com/messages/page_not_found.html?abigbunchofgarbage and then returns 200 (success). On a site like that, if you then click WaybackMachine → Recent Version, you'll either be told "URL not found in wayback archives" or be shown an archived copy of the wrong page.
Suggestion: Perhaps a future version of this extension could make note of redirections and, when the WayBackMachine is used, the requested URLs would be tried in FIFO order (until one of them succeeds or they all fail).
Downside 4: If the lookup at archive.org fails, an error dialog will pop up with an annoying alert sound.
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- Rated 4 out of 5by Kelson, 5 months agoUseful for when you want to make sure the pages you're reading will still be around in some form in the future, and to easily get at additional context. (Just remember that it checks *every page you view* against the Wayback Machine, so turn it off when you're not using it!)
If you enable auto-save, be sure to add to the exclusions list so it doesn't waste time trying to archive your webmail or control panel.
There *is* a private mode where it doesn't do anything until you ask it to. But that leaves you with essentially the same features as a pair of bookmarklets to check or save the current page. - Rated 5 out of 5by Niklas, 5 months ago
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As of now, you can only enable private mode after already accepting the terms and then the extension makes an automatic connection before you have time to enable private mode.
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- Rated 2 out of 5by sh, 7 months agoNormally I love this so so much, but as of lately the save feature just doesn't work. I have to manually click on the little calendar to open the site, and then save it there. Not sure why this is the case
- Rated 4 out of 5by MarsSeed, 7 months agoIt's a staple addon for me. Could use some enhancements: e.g. more granular auto-save period config, RegEx support for blacklist, and also allowing to use a whitelist and/or an "always enabled for saving" list.