Reviews for Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine by Internet Archive
29 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Nyaa, a year agoGood, but we should be able to enable private mode before the extension makes an automatic connection.
As of now, you can only enable private mode after already accepting the terms and then the extension makes an automatic connection before you have time to enable private mode.
What good is private mode if you can't enable it before the app forces a connection to be made? - Rated 1 out of 5by Jerome e lauron, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13434336, 3 years agoYou need to login to save a page & the last 3 or 4 updates are really bad for privacy.
I used it since it was a test-pilot program for Firefox in 2016 (no more 404s). But since all new "features" are really bad I uninstalled it. - Rated 1 out of 5by A Firefox User, 3 years agoThe add-on now forces you to log in to archive a page, but previous versions (and the archive.org website) have no such requirement. This login requirement is a serious regression that prevents me from using this version at all. I'm not going to create an account for no reason; I'd prefer to remain anonymous. I've reverted back to version 1.8.6 (which is still available here under "See all versions").
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17305735, 3 years agoEverytime I go to my Banks website this plugin rediects me to its own page. Removed plugin from Firefox
- Rated 1 out of 5by kev, 3 years agoI have found all functions of this add on, including archiving pages, detecting dead links and requesting archived pages to be entirely non functional. It prevents me from accessing working sites so often that I finally relented and uninstalled the add on
- Rated 1 out of 5by Hp93, 3 years agoToo often it misdetect a perfectly fine website as "not found" and redirect to the addon page.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14986384, 3 years agoNot only is it incapable of archiving any web page, but it also gives so many false positives when it thinks a site is down when it in fact is not.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14685912, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Stardust, 4 years agoI absolutely love internet archive and wayback machine, and I wanted so much to love this extension.
But unfortunately it keeps giving me a crazy amount of fake positive unavailable webpages sometimes before it even tries to load, ruining my navigation in almost every session.
So why not just turn down the option of automatic detection and replacement of these pages and just keep the other great functionnalities ?
Because you just can't, you also cannot just reload the current page you were trying to reach when the extension find a fake positive, you re just stuck.
So uninstallation is the only way to go.
As long as this extension is not fixed and give absolutely no option to turn down the messy automatic error detection, stay away from this extension. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13460059, 4 years agoGreat and horrible addon. Horrible because the dead page detection has been nothing but false positives for the months I have used it. Great because everything else works as well as one could hope for. The dead page detection really is bad enough to make me uninstall an otherwise 5 star addon because it makes the overall browser much much worse. It would be a solid 5 if that detection had never been built in.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Edgar Onghena, 4 years agoGreat extension, but it *very often* replaces 100% functioning web pages with its annoying "Page not available" dialog box. I usually reload the page to fix this but I don't even understand how it's possible to mess up reading an HTTP status code... An less intrusive solution would be to show a banner.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Patrice, 4 years agoVisiblement ils ne regardent pas les critiques et ne corrigent pas leur extension depuis 3 ans : https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/reviews/?score=1
Comme dit plus bas : I love the internet archive and the wayback machine, but I had to disable this extension because it constantly gives me false positives and won't let me see pages that are live. At the very least it needs a button to "Show Live Page" so I can override it. But as of now it's impossible to override without disabling the extension entirely. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13452434, 4 years agoVery intrusive. Sometimes replaces entire webpage before it gets time to load.
It says it detects _annoying_ 404 pages and ironically itself is very annoying. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16348317, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by J.M. Hardin, 5 years agoI used to love this addon but lately it's kicking in simply when going back and forth in a single tab's history when the page I'm going to has displayed beautifully within the last two minutes. Now I only enable it when I need it, which is a royal pain.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14565419, 5 years agoI find it really, really annoying that I cannot block it's popup for some sites. For example, Reddit is down right now. Every time I reload, it pops its obnoxious "you wanna see an archived version of this page?" thing. No matter how many times I dismiss the damned thing. I don't want an archived version of Reddit. Please give us a way to black list sites from this popup!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15207813, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14106106, 6 years agoI will consider changing the rating, once the major bug will be fixed, which causes this plugin to pop up on working websites.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13156335, 6 years agoToo damn keen on redirecting working sites - Iv'e disabled it now until it's fixed
- Rated 1 out of 5by lacoL, 6 years agoToo damn aggressive, if it has a pop-over that I can close I would be very happy but to just cause it to move away from the site I'm viewing because an image gives a 404 status is damn right WRONG.
This thing i turned off until it is revisited that it checks for the base path to return a 404 and ignores if the original request returns a status of 200. How damn hard can it be?!