I’ve been going through a phase in the last month trying out different browsers and I think I’ve finally been won over by Brave. Gosh, I get anxiety now whenever I see an article about web browsers because I know what the comments will be like… “MY web browser can beat up YOUR web browser!”Īnyway…. The feature never made it into the Firefox browser though. Mozilla ran a Test Pilot experiment in 2016 called No More 404s which provided a quick link to the Wayback Machine to search for archived copies. Some browser developers have tested integration of the functionality in their browsers. Extensions like Wayback Machine for Google Chrome or the 2010 Firefox extension WaybackFox (no longer available) aim to improve the process through automatic lookups. One of the better options that users have in the case of deleted or changed resources is to check the Wayback Machine for cached copies. Tip: find out why you cannot access a site or service.
It is quite frustrating to follow a link only to find out that the resource is no longer available at all or has changed in the meantime this happens to text-only pages but also file downloads, image galleries, and any other type of content. Webpages come and go sometimes, it is a temporary thing that prevents you from accessing a webpage, at other times, it may be because a page has been deleted, redirected, or edited.