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Feeling boring when you surf a site and encounter the infamous message, “Error 404 - This site does not exist”? Fortunately, there is a Firefox Extension, Resurrect Pages to let you access a cached version of a broken link.

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.

With Resurrect Pages, you can search through five big page cache/mirrors:

• CoralCDN
• Google Cache (plus text-only version)
• Yahoo! Cache
• The Internet Archive
• MSN Cache

You can check out the site even if the server is down. 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.

Resurrect Pages available in three ways:

• 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

Download the latest version of Resurrect Pages Firefox Extension from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2570.