Reviews for Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine by Internet Archive
Review by Firefox user 14879842
Rated 2 out of 5
by Firefox user 14879842, 4 years agoSame issue as everyone else. You *cannot* throw a splash screen in my face every time a page fails to load properly. Have some respect for your user base - if someone is familiar with the Wayback Machine and chooses to install this extension, chances are they know how to navigate to the archive for dead pages via the widget! Please add a toggle. This is an issue I would have expected the Archive Team of all groups to be savvy to.
My primary reason for downloading was to be able to quickly save websites and contribute to the archive. While this extension makes that slightly more convenient, I would recommend that anyone seeking similar functionality just memorize this to prepend to the address of whichever page you want to save: "https://web.archive.org/save/". If you're more interested in the other function, you can instead prepend "https://web.archive.org/web/*/".
Other people have suggested that the page-down screens be converted into banners, and while this would be a huge improvement, I would really like to be able to disable all popups regardless of "intrusiveness." Again, this seems like something you guys would be sensitive to! I can't understand why it's designed this way.
My primary reason for downloading was to be able to quickly save websites and contribute to the archive. While this extension makes that slightly more convenient, I would recommend that anyone seeking similar functionality just memorize this to prepend to the address of whichever page you want to save: "https://web.archive.org/save/". If you're more interested in the other function, you can instead prepend "https://web.archive.org/web/*/".
Other people have suggested that the page-down screens be converted into banners, and while this would be a huge improvement, I would really like to be able to disable all popups regardless of "intrusiveness." Again, this seems like something you guys would be sensitive to! I can't understand why it's designed this way.
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