Dead pages, broken links, the scourge of the internet. Powerhouse sites like Slashdot and Digg can bring a server to its knees. What do we do when a page is dead but we still want to see it? Call in the clerics, and perform a resurrection ceremony! Or, the easier route, use this extension.
- Searches through seven page cache/mirrors:
- CoralCDN
- Google Cache (plus text-only version)
- Yahoo! Cache
- The Internet Archive
- MSN Cache
- Gigablast Cache
- WebCite
Of course, not every page can be in every cache. When a page is unavailable, you'll generally see that site's error page. Hit back and try another one!
- Accessible:
- In the context (right-click) menu for the current page, and for all links.
- In the toolbar, just customize it to drag the button in.
- With the keyboard: press
Ctrl-Shift-U
- Directly in the net error ("Firefox could not load this page...") page.
- Version 2.0.7 (Jun 26, 2011)
- Firefox 5.0 compatibility.
- Updated translations from babelzilla.org.
- Version 2.0.6 (Jan 17, 2011)
- Firefox 4 compatibility. (#444, #453)
- Rework
netError.xhtml
modifications to interact better with other extensions. - Add translations: cs-CZ, da, de, fr, nl, sr, sv-SE, tr-TR, zh-CN
- Update translations: ca-AD, el-GR, en-US, es-AR, es-CL, es-ES, fi-FI, hr-HR, it-IT, ja-JP, ko-KR, pl-PL, pt-BR, pt-PT, ru-RU, sl-SI, uk-UA, zh-TW
- Version 2.0.5 (Nov 12, 2009)
- Replace "MSN" with "Bing" engine.
- Firefox 3.6 compatibility flag.
- Version 2.0.4 (Apr 30, 2009)
- Compatibility with Firefox 3.5.
- Visual tweak to the net error page.
- Remove port number from CoralCDN URLs.
- Remember the last target (window/tab) and use it as the default next time.
- Version 2.0.3 (June 27, 2008)
- Increase the space available for the resurrect UI in the net error page.
- Use the built-in openUILinkIn method to create a new tab.
- Version 2.0.2 (May 31, 2008)
- Various translation updates.
- Add ja-JP locale.
- Do not show resurrect buttons in the "net error" page when it doesn't make sense.
- Version 2.0.1
- Firefox 3.0 RC1 compatibility.
- Version 2.0.0
- Firefox 3.0 beta compatibility.
- New interface incorporating graphics and more intuitive buttons.
- Version 1.0.8 (Mar 28, 2007)
- Disable the cache-selection interface while a synchronous API call is being made.
- Add translations: ko-KR, fi-FI, ca-AD.
- Update translations: hr-HR, es-CL.
- Version 1.0.7 (Feb 19, 2007)
- Add translations: da-DK, hr-HR, uk-UA, sl-SI, el-GR
- Version 1.0.6
- Clerical error, missing?
- Version 1.0.5
- Internal fix for locale translations.
- Version 1.0.4
- Locale updates.
- Version 1.0.3
- Fix a foolish bug that left the in-error-page control broken in the last bugfix.
- Version 1.0.2
- Fix bug when using "Resurrect this link" function.
- Version 1.0.1
- Fix bug case
- When a page that couldn't load shows the error page in a background tab, the interface would not work.
- Version 1.0:
- Select current tab, new tab, new window for new page.
- Translations for 9 languages, thanks to BabelZilla.org.
- Minor code tweaks and improvements.
- Version 0.6:
- Switch to using the MSN Search API, instead of screen scraping.
- Integrate into the net error page.
- Version 0.5.1
- Bugfix, broken shortcut key.
Resurrect Pages is released under the MIT license.