# Wayback Time Machine

> View archived copies of any page, save the current site now, and reopen older snapshots when a link is dead. Internet Archive lookup, Save Page Now, URL search.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/wayback-time-machine](https://chrome-stats.com/d/wayback-time-machine)

## Overview

- **ID:** `wayback-time-machine`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Harley
- **Category:** search-tools,bookmarks
- **Daily users:** 25
- **Weekly downloads:** 11
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.3.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-25
- **First published:** 2026-09-14
- **Size:** 1.27 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-10-28
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/wayback-time-machine/)

## Description

The page you need is gone, or you want a copy saved before it changes.

This add-on looks up the current URL in the Internet Archive and lets you open an older snapshot or save the page right now.
<ul><li>View the latest archived version</li><li>Save Page Now, with optional outlinks and a screenshot</li><li>Search any URL from the popup</li><li>See how many snapshots exist and when the page was last saved</li></ul>
Install it and keep a working path back to pages that disappear.

## Rankings

- #23,265 — Overall
- #2 — history
- #15 — machine
- #75 — cmd+m (mac)
- #205 — airtime

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `cookies`
- `contextMenus`
- `notifications`
- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `https://archive.org/*`
- `https://*.archive.org/*`
- `https://hypothes.is/*`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `*.wikipedia.org`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

> Some risk analysis details are omitted from this free response. [Upgrade to view the full analysis](https://chrome-stats.com/pricing).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/wayback-time-machine)