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FWIW Brave does that. If you reach a page with a 404 a banner will appear on top with a button to try and navigate to the latest version of the page you're looking for at the archive.

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There's a fantastic extension for Firefox, Chrome, etc. called Web Archives which will attempt to find a copy of the missing page from the Wayback Machine, Google Cache, Archive.is and many more.

https://github.com/dessant/web-archives

There's an official Wayback Machine extension for Chrome:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wayback-machine/fp...

I use it, it's really useful.

Except it very often misdetects a successful load of a page as an error and redirects you away.

Really? It's not done that to me yet. It just pops up a 'see this page on the wayback machine' dialog, which I can dismiss if I want.

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