Reviews for Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine by Internet Archive
39 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by LZT, 10 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13165481, a year agoLong-time user here. I’m glad the add-on finally removed the privacy-harming log-in requirement for saving pages.
However, when I do want to stay logged in, the add-on repeatedly logs me out every few days or so, so I constantly have to log back in. Would be great if this was fixed and that you stayed logged in until you click the log-out button. If this gets fixed I’ll bump my rating up to 5/5.Developer response
posted 9 months agoThis will be fixed in the upcoming v3.2 release, coming soon. Thank you. - Rated 4 out of 5by jokenngo, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by John Harris, a year agoGenerally works well. It falls short in:
- Frequently auto-updating and then not operating at all until the user agrees to new permissions, which is a drag on workflow.
- Persists in annoying me with pop-up boxes to "check out more great features in settings," which is obnoxious when commercial software does it, let alone when a utility put out by a non-profit does. It should do its job and get out of my way. - Rated 4 out of 5by Jamchuck, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13884442, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Zeteo, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Kitty None, 2 years agoEDIT: It was finally updated, and although it still is susceptible to false positives, it's greatly improved and extremely useful now!
Same complaint as everyone else: this addon would be SO useful if there was some way to dial down the sensitivity of the automatic redirect or turn it off — but since the addon hasn't been updated since 2018 I assume this bug won't be fixed. Hopefully someone picks up where they left off and implements this functionality into a working addon, because it's a great idea. - Rated 4 out of 5by pelle, 3 years agoIt's good but sometimes has false positives and thinks that a website is down when it isn't. In those cases there's no way around than to disable the extension. I wish they'd fix that.
But it's absolutely brilliant work the Internet Archive team are doing. - Rated 4 out of 5by Dark_Ronius, 3 years agoI would like to see the option of a banner rather than a pop up. Other than that, great add on.
- Rated 4 out of 5by 100yenman, 3 years agoポップアップページがやや不快だが、ウェブサイトを手軽にセーブできる点は本当に優れている。
ただ私の環境の影響なのか、Twitterのウェブページが正しくアーカイブされない。惜しいところだ。
サポートが終了して消えてしまうようなウェブサイトがあり、まだ閲覧していたいという気持ちがあるなら、この拡張機能をぜひ試してほしい。
あなたの欲望を満たします。 - Rated 4 out of 5by comicstrip, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13516203, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by crookm, 3 years agoExcellent extension, it's super useful.
Note that the current version is very outdated, three years out of date now. The github (/internetarchive/wayback-machine-webextension) shows that there is very active development, but changes are not being published to firefox like they are to chrome. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14949259, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by noviyanto, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Andrej Shadura, 3 years agoI love this extension, but false positives in recent months have been really annoying, I sometimes needed to press Back up to five times to just be able to see the page I was reading.
- Rated 4 out of 5by active x, 3 years agoAs others already mentioned there's a bug where it thinks the page failed to load when it didn't. If you just provide the option to disable this auto detection it would be great.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14490699, 4 years agoLately it seems way too quick to jump to a wayback lookup when clicking the 'back' arrow button on Firefox. I'm just jumping back to a page that I had just looked at! It isn't 404!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Marce, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Stephen Judge, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by grahamperrin, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by A Firefox User, 4 years agoLike everyone else has mentioned, the add on is a little over zealous to show archived versions of the page. Other than that it is a useful add on
- Rated 4 out of 5by Mjone77, 4 years agoWorks great, except for it thinking that a working site is down and asking if I want to see an archived version. When this happens I have to spam the back button until it stops thinking the page is down.
Fixing this bug and/or preferably adding an option to disable automatic missing page recognition would make this a 5/5.