WebMemex

Name: WebMemex
Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Author: Gerben

By: Gerben

A browser extension that lets you grow your personal web of knowledge. Currently it lets you store pages you visited, and search through them.

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Features & Capabilities

This extension takes a step towards turning the browser into an offline-first knowledge management tool. It can store snapshots of web pages you visit on your computer by 'freeze-drying' them: removing scripts and thus most interactive behaviour, but inlining all images and stylesheets to let you save the page exactly the way you saw it.

Usage

To store a page, press the extension's button (usually found next to the address bar). To view all pages you stored and search through them, open the overview; either from the button's popup, or by pressing Ctrl+Y (if it works on your system, shortcuts seem to be a bit flaky).

Privacy perfect

This extension is completely local, it never sends or contacts anything. Snapshotted pages are stored inside the extension (you can also save them as html files). When viewed, such a stored page does not make any connections or execute any scripts.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Gerben

Daily users:

Rating:

3.50

(4)

Version:

0.3.3 Last updated: 2019-06-06

Version code:

4475899

Creation date:

2017-02-12

Risk:

Permissions:

Content scripts matches:

<all_urls>

Size:

4.97MB

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-16

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 21,992 ▼ 151

Other rankings

#51 in meme keyword 11 ▼ 1#104 in member keyword 13 ▲ 1

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Developed by:

Gerben

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/webmemex/

User Reviews

This seemed like the perfect extension for cataloging offline web pages until... After saving around 100 pages, every attempted save thereafter results in: "Error: The snapshot has been made, but it could not be stored in this extension's storage. Just saving it among your downloads instead.." Apparently this extension doesn't invoke Mozilla's "unlimitedStorage" permission and therefore only 2GB of snapshots can be made. After that limit, snapshots are saved in the system's default downloads directory, but cannot be searched via the extension. What a buzzkill.

by Fi*****, 2021-10-20

I don't know if it supports cloud, like Dropbox, or anything else like Gdrive, etc. If it doesn't support any cloud (I don't use Webdav), could you add this feature please?

by PE*****, 2020-11-08

by Gu*****, 2020-05-06

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Is WebMemex Safe?

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

WebMemex requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

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WebMemex has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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