Web Archive Viewer Is on Chrome, Edge and Firefox: Install Guide, Shortcuts and Tips

Web Archive Viewer started as a Chrome extension. It now ships from one codebase to all three major desktop stores, with the same tools, the same free tier and the same account in each. Here are the links, the setup steps for each browser and a tour of what's inside.

Install on Chrome

1. 1

   Open the listing

   Go to the Chrome Web Store page and click Add to Chrome.

2. 2

   Confirm

   Chrome lists the permissions: reading the current tab's address when you open the popup, and storage. Click Add extension.

3. 3

   Pin it

   Click the puzzle-piece icon in the toolbar and pin Web Archive Viewer so it's always one click away.

Install on Firefox

1. 1

   Open the listing

   Go to the Firefox Add-ons page and click Add to Firefox.

2. 2

   Allow site access when asked

   Firefox asks separately for access to webinternetarchive.com, which is only used for capture counts and optional sign-in. Lookups work either way.

3. 3

   Pin it

   Open the Extensions menu (the puzzle piece) and choose Pin to Toolbar.

Install on Edge

1. 1

   Open the listing

   Go to the Edge Add-ons page and click Get.

2. 2

   Confirm

   Click Add extension in the dialog.

3. 3

   Show in toolbar

   Open the Extensions menu and turn on Show in toolbar for Web Archive Viewer.

Keyboard shortcuts

A tour of the tools

Free, forever

• Search archives — one card per archive with capture count, first and last dates and Latest/Oldest buttons; Search All opens all eight. More on the archives.
• Timeline — captures by year, month and day across archives, with Every change / Daily / Monthly density and filters for pages, redirects and errors.
• Snapshot by date — the closest capture to any date in each archive.
• Domain history — whole-site views on six archives, with www, http and home-page variants.
• Archive now — capture the page on the Wayback Machine, Archive.today or Ghostarchive, or all three. How to archive a page.
• Copy links and Recent lookups — every archive link as Markdown or text; your last 12 lookups, stored only on your device.
• Library — one collection of 25 items with notes, tags and citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, BibTeX and Wikipedia format.

Pro

• Compare versions — text diff, change summary, metadata and links, plus visual diff with overlay and pixel difference. Guide.
• Recover page — live status, ranked surviving captures and extracted text. Guide.
• SEO & changes — titles, headings, canonicals and counts across up to 12 captures, with trend charts. Guide.
• Search history — find a phrase across a page's captures or a site's pages.
• Bulk lookup — up to 1,000 URLs for live status and archive availability. Guide.
• Full URL inventory — every archived URL on a domain, up to 10,000 rows. Guide.
• Evidence reports, export research (CSV, JSON, Markdown, HTML, citations) and a synced Library.

Pro runs on a small API over the public archives — no hosted AI and no metered extras — which is why it starts at $2 a month, with yearly and lifetime options. See pricing.

Privacy, in one paragraph

The extension reads the current tab's address only when you open the popup — that's all the activeTab permission allows. It has no access to your history, no <all_urls> permission and no analytics. Recent lookups stay on your device and can be turned off. Opening an archive is a plain link to that archive, and signing in is optional and only ever talks to webinternetarchive.com. The full policy is on the privacy page.

Settings worth changing

• Default archive — what Enter opens.
• Archive order and visibility — put the archives you use first, hide the rest.
• Open in new tab or current tab.
• Start tool — open the popup on Timeline or Snapshot by date instead of Search.
• Capture counts and toolbar badge — turn off if you prefer fewer network requests.

FAQ