Webmasters and researchers sometimes need to take a look at a website’s history. This is for instance essential when buying a website to make sure that the seller has been running the website for the time claimed and not snatched a dropped domain to make a quick buck. The Wayback Machine at archive.org is the preferred way of checking how a website looked in the past. Not every website is included obviously but the most popular and visited websites usually are.
WaybackFox is an interesting prototype add-on for Firefox that makes it a tad easier to access the Wayback Machine directly from the website that needs to be checked.
The Firefox add-on places an icon in the Firefox status bar. This icon indicates whether the add-on is active or inactive. A click with the mouse button will change the status but that is all that can be done actively. The icon will change when a website with records is opened in the web browser.
A slider is added next to the icon that can be used to select one of the available history records of that website. This version of the website is then automatically loaded in Firefox. A small overlay over the slider will display the dates as well as the total number of records on file.
WaybackFox makes it very easy to work with the Wayback Machine archive for websites, ideal for webmasters, business owners, researchers and nostalgia fans. The add-on is currently in experimental stage and compatible with all Firefox 3.x versions.
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