Reviews for Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine by Internet Archive
333 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12876347, 7 years agoSometimes overreacts when page loads for a long time. I would prefer to not get modal dialog blocking page that loads correctly.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Kavaeric, 7 years agoSo far it's alright, and it does what it says on the tin. However, it is probably too eager to prompt the user to check the 404 page. On many occasions where the page did load, its modal window pops in my face asking me to check out any archived versions.
Worse still, the popup is a modal window that blocks out the rest of the page and cannot actually be exited out of without reloading the whole page.
Personally, I think it would be fine if there was no pop-up at all. Simply have the user access the toolbar button. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14087118, 7 years agoSeems to overreact with resource loading errors within the page.
This is not really properly tested. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14024434, 7 years agoThis addon absolutely has some use in concept but it takes over pages loading slowly or differently - even fast loading consisten pages on some websites I visit.
I wish it worked, I wish there was a minimum configurable timer, and I wish I could set it to ONLY come up on ACTUAL 404's.
Instead, I'm just going to disable it for now and see if it ever gets better. Sadly it is far more in the way than helpful. - Rated 5 out of 5by Ashhar Hasan (work), 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by arandor, 7 years agoHave been using this since it was a Firefox Test Pilot project called "No More 404s". Never had any problems with it. It's one of those features that should be built into Firefox.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Jacktose, 7 years agoIt's nice to be able to look up or save a page from the button. The automatic feature might be helpful if it was not a false positive 95% of the time. An option to turn that off would be worth a star to this review.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13808047, 7 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by michael39, 7 years agoit seems overzealous, maybe an error loading some part of the page triggers the extension to assume the entire page is unreachable? that's my guess- I'm not sure exactly what is triggering the false positives exactly. has worked a few times as intended/expected, too
- Rated 1 out of 5by Zbyněk Winkler, 7 years agoOften shows some giant wayback image for urls that are working. Actually it seems to think that there is an dns error while there is none. Not usable in this state.
Please only hijack the error pages (404 and dns error) and provide a link there to the wayback machine. That would be perfect. And thanks for wayback machine. - Rated 1 out of 5by hackel, 7 years agoConstant false-positives, causing the giant Wayback Machine image to appear over an otherwise valid, working page, and causing me to loose all of my forward navigation history. Had to remove due to this extreme annoyance. Instead, it should simply show an icon in the address bar when an archived version of a page is available.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13955540, 7 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 6881396, 7 years agoToo eager! Every time it's come up, I got the desired page by clicking the link again. It's never provided a backup page that was needed.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13259309, 7 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Eli B., 7 years agoUseful, but there are too many cases where are page just happens to load too slowly for the extension's taste so it pops up offering to use the service, blocking the entire page.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13885219, 7 years agoIt would be nice if it would really only show up when the page is 404 and not because the page is coincidentally loading slowly.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13417472, 7 years agoSometimes there are false positives, and I have to turn off the add-on to view the site.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13854359, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Erol Egemen, 7 years agoSo useful add-on.
But there is a problem with the context menu: When you right click on a link and select an option (like First Version) it shows the current site that you are visiting (the URL at your address bar) instead of the URL you clicked on.
I don't know if it's a bug or a feature but It would be very useful if it opens the link you right clicked upon :/
Also there is a bug unique to Firefox; if URL is not found, nothing happens. In Chrome it warns with a pop-up message.
Thank you for this add-on and glorious Archive.org itself <3 - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13832595, 7 years agoA nice extension. Generally works but occasionally has hiccups.
That said, updating to the newest version needlessly cluttered up my context menu with duplicates of the stuff available through the browser action (that I currently have to resort to userChrome.css to remove) and non-optionally added a requirement for notification privileges with no option to turn off whatever annoying popup it's planning to display.
I'm giving it a 3 out of 5 for those warts. - Rated 2 out of 5by Samir, 7 years agoVery useful, but buggy. Keeps trying to wayback sites that actually load and work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by CloudUchiha, 7 years ago