I initially noticed a Reddit post from someone seeking a Firefox extension that could extract ZIP files [^1]. Curious about this need, I discovered the author was using a restricted computer environment that prevented installation of local programs. This prompted me to examine existing online decompression tools, only to find that the top five online extraction tools failed to fully support:
- Decompressing large ZIP files (tens of gigabytes)
- Preserving directory structures when extracting folders
The video below demonstrates the performance of current online tools: