Reviews for Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine by Internet Archive
Review by treesap
Rated 3 out of 5
by treesap, 5 years agoInstall this from the official GitHub repository, unless you want a buggy 3 years old release. The newer version has an improved UI, bugfixes, and more features. 5-stars for that version!
URL: githubDOTcom/internetarchive/wayback-machine-webextension
Old review (for this version): Super useful tool, but BADLY needs a bugfix. I basically have to keep this disabled until the times that I need it due to a significant bug that has been there for the 1+ year I've used it.
The issue is that sometimes the "Page not available" page is displayed for pages that are absolutely available! And the extension is very persistent--after this bug hits, the only way to view the live version of the webpage is to manually navigate to it (i.e. copy and re-paste the portion of the URL that contains the page I'm trying to visit—minus all the archive.org stuff.)
I periodically re-enable the extension to see if the problem is fixed, but no luck for the past 1+ years.
URL: githubDOTcom/internetarchive/wayback-machine-webextension
Old review (for this version): Super useful tool, but BADLY needs a bugfix. I basically have to keep this disabled until the times that I need it due to a significant bug that has been there for the 1+ year I've used it.
The issue is that sometimes the "Page not available" page is displayed for pages that are absolutely available! And the extension is very persistent--after this bug hits, the only way to view the live version of the webpage is to manually navigate to it (i.e. copy and re-paste the portion of the URL that contains the page I'm trying to visit—minus all the archive.org stuff.)
I periodically re-enable the extension to see if the problem is fixed, but no luck for the past 1+ years.
359 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by dlfkdslf, 13 days agoGreat extension with two quibbles: Sometimes a live page goes immediately to "this page is not available, do you want to see the archived version?" and I need to back out and click again. The other issue is that the "page not available" screen doesn't seem to respect dark mode settings, which can be painfully blinding in a dark room.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15690325, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ki, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by tuxsavvy, 2 months agoConvenient. Though it needs to indicate when there's a delay in registering a snapshot with the Wayback Machine for instance.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19236430, 2 months agoThe extension works but its not as updated as the chrome, edge, and safari versions based on there github and last updated date.
- Rated 5 out of 5by andrybak, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Simon Bünemann, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hector64, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16105683, 4 months agoInstalled easily and worked like a charm at first attempt. It saved all links, etc. Very impressive software.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13011872, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by realdickcheney, 4 months agoCitations lacking incomplete bilbiographic data make me SOOOO ANGRY that I need to go hunting. After, I use this extension to find archives of webpages cited on Wikipedia to help prevent link rot. It works wonderfully!
- Rated 5 out of 5by tony, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18960744, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 杨葛格, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Celtice, 6 months agoThis extension is pretty convenient. I recommend running it only manually unless your internet connection and device resources (memory and so on) can easily handle it. My PC is very middleground in terms of hardware and my internet speeds and connection are deplorable so running it automatically on many pages was really slowing things down. If the extension just isn't pleasing me I regularly turn it off and just paste web links into the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine website.
- Rated 5 out of 5by TheNeighborinMoorhead, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kualdir, 6 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by APDS, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nj Mahir, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by sceri, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by HunterMirror, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18619481, 6 months ago