Online service that have 452 billion web pages saved over time and who is domain tools in context menu
What is Wayback machine website and Who is domain?
Wayback machine website and Who is domain is a Firefox add-on that lets you search the history and get snapshots of the 452 billion web pages saved over time. It also provides Who is domain tools in the Firefox context menu for easy domain information lookup.
Add-on stats
Rating: 4.33
(3)
Creation date: 2015-11-30
Weekly download count: NaN
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
Size: 31.76K
Ranking
# 14994
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Add-on summary
Wayback machine/Internet Archive is service and online tool where you can search the history and get snapshots of the 452 billion web pages saved over time
User reviews
The context-menu shouldn't disappear when right-clicking on links. The add-on should be made to handle the URL-link that's been right-clicked on.
The problem is, for example: when I click on an out-dated microsoft.com link, it's going to redirect me to an Error404 page customized by microsoft. Once I'm at that page, if I use the context-menu tool provided by this add-on, it's going to search this link instead "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/404Error.aspx".
This problem will affect the user any time that the requested URL exists on a domain that has it's own error404 landing page for pages that have been removed.
Since there's no toolbar icon for this add-on, it's unfortunate, but this issue makes this add-on virtually useless for me. If this gets fixed, I could see myself using this add-on.
For whatever reason, the official add-on by The Internet Archive gave me too many false positives with sites that were actually being loaded just fine. Having a right-click menu is also great: it gives me more manual control, and it doesn't make me move the mouse to the already cluttered top-right corner where I have to hunt for the right button.
It works by simply opening a new tab with the result page for the search query on that you otherwise would have typed in manually>This simple solution avoids loading the font page of Archive.org when I'm only interested in a specific website, which loads much faster for me and saves bandwidth for them. Win-win! Plus, it leaves the original tab unaffected, which I like.
Making it trivial to check a domain on whois is just a welcome bonus feature at this point.
Thanks for a great add-on!
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Wayback machine website and Who is domain requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Wayback machine website and Who is domain is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.
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