Reviews for Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine by Internet Archive
328 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kuba Niewiarowski, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Misttina, 7 years agoI love this extension for referencing information I have seen in the past that may not be present in search bars. Thank you for this addon!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12889199, 7 years agoWhich is quite a bit less than it would take you to do the same on the official site. It's a winner :)
- Rated 4 out of 5by Jonathan Cardona Rojas, 7 years agoIt works. Not quite as fast as one could wish, but I does it's work well. Very impressive. Looking for less clicks to save a page.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12663304, 7 years ago2 clicks in order to open a page or save it. Great.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13385400, 7 years ago
- 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.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13283124, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by konstischuetze, 7 years agoIt some times shows up where it shouldn't, but much more often it saved me from tedious searches. This includes cases where a website was broken, gone or simply had a temporary downtime.
- Rated 5 out of 5by 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. - Rated 4 out of 5by _, 8 years agoIt works great but it really shouldn't prompt me to redirect on localhost.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12960805, 8 years agoAwesome to see the evolution of a brand as depicted on their site over time
- Rated 5 out of 5by U64, 8 years agoA quite lovely addon. Not only does it help you find things that might have gotten lost (sites remove stuff, or shuffle it around, or edit them, or the sites just die), but it gives you a one-click way to archive whatever website you're visiting. Saves time and sanity.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hotstuff8224, 8 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12919816, 8 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Bo, 8 years agoI really wish it wouldn't pay attention to localhost. When I'm playing with my own web server I don't want to be forwarded to the wayback page. I'd rather be able to reload the classic error page instead of navigating to localhost again.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12916690, 8 years agoI am often digging around obscure websites and regularly run into 404's and even websites with expired domains. This addon helps automate an essential part of my research workflow.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12727349, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12890428, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12885636, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12752979, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 5866884, 8 years agoMr. Kahle this is add-on you designed HAS got to be at least one of your "pride & joys" technologically. I am looking forward to reviewing other add-on(s) that you kindly offer to share.
Thanks for helping me find what I was unable to prior.
MommaWolf - Rated 5 out of 5by J. Ryan Stinnett, 8 years agoThis was my favorite Test Pilot experiment so far. It's very helpful to have an easy way to pull up cached content when a site is down.