Library EZProxy
Quickly reload pages through your library's EZProxy.
What is Library EZProxy?
Library EZProxy is a Firefox add-on that allows for quick reloading of web pages through your library's EZProxy system. It passes the URL to your library's EZProxy login URL, providing easy access to online databases.
Add-on stats
By: rcdemuth
Rating: 5.00
(1)
Creation date: 2019-09-10
Weekly download count: 3
Firefox on Android: No
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- contextMenus
- storage
- activeTab
- https://ezproxy-db.appspot.com/proxies.json
Size: 47.98K
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Add-on summary
This is a port of the Chrome Extension developed by Tom Wambold. You can view the source code at https://github.com/tom5760/chrome-ezproxy.
Many universities use EZProxy to allow its students access to various online databases. This extension adds a button to Chrome which allows for a quick way to reload the current page through your EZProxy system.
All it does is pass the URL to your library's EZProxy login URL. For example:
would change to:
http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi?url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org
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Library EZProxy requires very minimum permissions.
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