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by greglindahl 3693 days ago
Very excited to see this launch! The Internet Archive has been working with browsers to check (opt-in) the Wayback Machine whenever endusers click on a dead link. We're in the queue for the next round of Test Pilot tests!
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There's an existing add-on that (kind of) does this. It checks Google Cache and Internet Archive, among others.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag...

Yes, there are a bunch of plugins which kind of do this. We're hoping to get this into all browsers, and only offer to take the end-user to the Wayback if we actually have a good capture of the URL.