Resurrect Pages is a small Firefox add-on by Anthony Lieuallen. When a link is dead or a page has changed, you pick it from a menu and it sends the address to five sources: the Internet Archive, WebCite, archive.is, Ghost Archive and the Australian Web Archive. It still works. Version 10 came out on October 20, 2026. It has 3,382 users, a 4.6 rating from 36 reviews and an MIT licence on Firefox Add-ons.
The add-on was born when search engine caches were the fastest way to see a missing page. Those are gone. Google removed the Cached link in February 2024 and the cache: operator followed around September 24, 2024. Bing dropped its cache links in December 2024, and the Memento Time Travel search shut down in September 2025. What remains are web archives, so the alternatives below are about reaching archives faster or from other browsers. Our CachedView alternatives guide covers the cache-viewer sites in more depth.
Prices below are as of November 8, 2026. Our method is on How we review tools.
Quick comparison
| Tool | Best for | Price | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Archives | One click to eight archives in any major browser | Free; Safari $5.99 | Chrome, Edge, Opera, Firefox (desktop and Android), Safari on macOS |
| Wayback Machine extension | Automatic offers of an archived copy on 404 pages | Free | Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari |
| CachedView.nl | Checking four archives at once with nothing to install | Free | Web |
| archive.today | News pages and paywalled articles other archives skip | Free | Web |
| Ghostarchive | Lost YouTube videos and social posts | Free | Web |
| MemGator | Running your own multi-archive lookup after Time Travel | Free, MIT licence | Command line, server, Docker |
Web Archives
Armin Sebastian's Web Archives does what Resurrect Pages does, in more browsers and with more sources. Right-click a page or a link and it opens a copy from the Wayback Machine, archive.is, Ghostarchive, Perma.cc, Megalodon or one of three other archives. You can switch sources off and reorder them, so your favourite opens first.
On Firefox, version 7.3.3 (June 27, 2026) has 69,164 users and a 4.7 rating from 352 reviews. It also runs on Firefox for Android, and the Chrome Web Store build, on the same version, has 60,000 users. Version 7.3.0 removed Memento Time Travel after that service closed.
Best for: Anyone leaving Firefox, or anyone who wants more than five archives behind the same right-click.
Pricing:
- Free on Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Opera (GPL-3.0)
- Safari: $5.99 on the Mac App Store, macOS 12 or later
Watch out for:
- The Safari build is paid and Mac only, with no iPhone or iPad version.
- An issue asking to add more Memento-supported archives has been open since February 15, 2026, so smaller national archives are still missing.
Official site: Web Archives. Our listing: Web Archives.
Wayback Machine extension
The Internet Archive's own extension removes the step Resurrect Pages still needs. When a page returns a 4xx or 5xx error, it notices and offers the archived copy without being asked, according to the Wayback Machine extension page. It runs on Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari 14.
The same toolbar button saves the page you are on, so you can archive something before it disappears. Saving through the extension needs a free archive.org login; looking up old copies does not.
Best for: Readers who mainly hit dead links and want the Wayback copy offered automatically.
Pricing:
- Free; the Internet Archive takes no ads and runs on donations
Watch out for:
- It searches only the Internet Archive. A Fortune report from April 15, 2026 counted 241 sites, 23 of them news organisations, blocking the archive's crawler, and Reddit limited it to its homepage in August 2025.
Official site: Wayback Machine extension. Our listing: Wayback Machine extension.
CachedView.nl
CachedView.nl is a single search box. Enter an address and the CachedView.nl site looks it up in the Wayback Machine, archive.today, the Library of Congress web archive and Perma.cc, and it can take a live screenshot of the page as it is now. That makes it the easiest option on a locked-down work laptop or a phone where you cannot add extensions.
The similarly named cachedview.com was built around Google's cache and now says it uses the Wayback Machine as its main source after Google stopped serving cached pages. The Dutch site gives more for the same click.
Best for: Checking several archives from any browser without installing anything.
Pricing:
- Free to use in the browser; no install
Watch out for:
- It covers four archives and leaves out Ghostarchive and the Australian Web Archive, two of the sources Resurrect Pages checks.
Official site: CachedView.nl.
archive.today
Many dead news links survive only on archive.today, because it ignores robots.txt and stores pages that block the Internet Archive. Searching it directly finds copies Resurrect Pages would also reach through its archive.is source, but the search box adds tools of its own: insite: to limit results to one domain, quoted phrases and wildcards.
Every capture comes as a working copy of the page plus a screenshot rendered at 1,024 pixels wide. It is free and needs no account.
Best for: Finding old copies of news articles and pages that opted out of the Wayback Machine.
Pricing:
- Free; no paid features, donations only
Watch out for:
- It is blocked in some countries. Wikipedia's archive.today article records a Russian block from March 23, 2026 and an unpassable CAPTCHA for Finnish visitors since early 2026.
- English Wikipedia stopped linking to it on February 20, 2026 over evidence that some captures had been altered, so treat a copy found here as a lead rather than proof.
Official site: archive.today. Our listing: archive.today.
Ghostarchive
A removed YouTube video is where Ghostarchive earns its place. People use it to save videos and Facebook posts, and its search accepts a domain, an exact URL, a URL prefix or a wildcard such as *.github.io/, which helps when you only remember part of an address.
Resurrect Pages already queries it, so Firefox users gain little by visiting directly. On Chrome or Safari, though, a bookmark to its search page replaces that part of the add-on.
Best for: Tracking down deleted videos and social media posts.
Pricing:
- Free; no registration and no ads
Watch out for:
- Keyword search is case sensitive, and a Lost Media Wiki forum thread reports video captures stuck on 'Archiving in progress'.
Official site: Ghostarchive.
MemGator
When Los Alamos National Laboratory shut down Memento Time Travel in September 2025, the web lost its main search across all archives at once. MemGator, from Old Dominion University's web science group, is the do-it-yourself version. It is a Go program that asks every archive in its list for copies of a URL and merges the answers into one dated list, a TimeMap, or jumps to the copy nearest a date you give.
Run it on the command line or as a small web service on port 1208. It returns Link, JSON or CDXJ output, and an /api path mimics the old Time Travel API, so scripts written for that service can point at your server instead. A Docker image is published as oduwsdl/memgator.
Best for: Librarians, researchers and developers who want a Time Travel style lookup they control.
Pricing:
- Free and open source (MIT)
Watch out for:
- It has no browser button or friendly page; the MemGator README covers installs, flags and endpoints, so it suits people comfortable in a terminal.
Official site: MemGator.
How to choose
| If you need | Pick |
|---|---|
| A right-click archive lookup in Chrome, Edge or Opera | Web Archives |
| An archived copy offered automatically on a 404 | Wayback Machine extension |
| A lookup on a phone or work PC with no extensions | CachedView.nl |
| An old news article the Wayback Machine lacks | archive.today |
| A deleted YouTube video | Ghostarchive |
| A self-hosted search across many archives | MemGator |
When to stay with Resurrect Pages
Stay with Resurrect Pages if you browse in Firefox and like a short menu. It is free, open source and was updated in October 2026, it asks only for access to browser tabs, and it checks the Australian Web Archive, which neither CachedView.nl nor the Wayback extension covers. Move to Web Archives only if you need more sources or change browsers.
Frequently asked questions
Does Resurrect Pages work in Chrome?
No. Resurrect Pages is published for Firefox, on desktop and on Firefox for Android. In Chrome, Edge or Opera, Web Archives gives the same right-click lookup with more archives, and the Wayback Machine extension covers the Internet Archive alone.
Can I still see Google's cached version of a page?
No. Google removed the Cached link in February 2024 and the cache: operator stopped working in September 2024. Bing removed its cache links in December 2024. Old copies now come from public web archives, which is what every tool on this page searches.
Is Resurrect Pages safe to install?
It is open source under the MIT licence, listed on Mozilla's add-on site, and requests a single permission: access to browser tabs. It sends the address of the page you choose to the archive you pick, so avoid using it on private intranet links you would not want those archives to see.
Why does Resurrect Pages find nothing for a page?
Usually because no archive saved it. Some sites block archive crawlers, small pages are rarely captured, and WebCite has had no new archives since 2019. Next time, save important pages yourself with the Wayback Machine extension so a copy exists before the link dies.
