Reviews for Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine by Internet Archive
Review by twotwos
Rated 5 out of 5
by twotwos, 3 years agoOk. This extension used to be *bad*. It was limited in its use and had a serious problem with what I'm terming "archive misfire", where it would decide to redirect some pages (which would otherwise load just fine!) to a new page where it gave you the option to view it in the archive. When you didn't need to.
Yet now! As of February this year, the extension has leapt all the way from version 1.8.6 to version 3.0, and let me tell you, this version absolutely slaps. It's brilliant. Archive misfire is no more, and it's got all sorts of helpful little options. The Internet Archive has taken this extension from an over-agressive bookmarklet to a really quite helpful browsing tool. If you scorned this extension before, I invite you to give it another go; and if you're here for the first time, don't be scared off by the review score - truly, things are better now. Also, some other reviews mention needing to login to save pages, a requirement which has been lifted as of ~a month ago.
Yet now! As of February this year, the extension has leapt all the way from version 1.8.6 to version 3.0, and let me tell you, this version absolutely slaps. It's brilliant. Archive misfire is no more, and it's got all sorts of helpful little options. The Internet Archive has taken this extension from an over-agressive bookmarklet to a really quite helpful browsing tool. If you scorned this extension before, I invite you to give it another go; and if you're here for the first time, don't be scared off by the review score - truly, things are better now. Also, some other reviews mention needing to login to save pages, a requirement which has been lifted as of ~a month ago.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Myro~n, a day ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by shuuji3, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "Frostbyte" Shepherd, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ZayneH, 2 months agoThis is one of the most important tools on the internet! Never forget it!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Alexandre Martins, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Jeddostotle7, 2 months agoVery good, very crucial addon, but after the Wayback Machine came fully back up into service in the wake of the outage, this extension's "Save Page Now" functionality has been spotty. Frequently tells me "Error: you need to be logged in to use 'Save Page Now'", despite the fact I am logged into the extension (and yes I did try logging out and logging back in, and this is after resetting my passwords on my Archive accounts).
EDIT: apparently this is a problem on the server API end, which is being looked into currently. - Rated 5 out of 5by PlanetaryFalls4465, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by elphaba, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by book, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hamsterifficaly, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kde, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by W. Germain, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by moonbrew, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by marcjuhl, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kay, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ventolinmono, 3 months agoEssential addon for preserving a free and open internet for future generations!
- Rated 5 out of 5by K Naresh, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18611201, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nishishui, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18589130, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Klementine Des Pêches, 4 months ago