Leiden Search Assistant version history - 4 versions
Leiden Search Assistant by Leiden University Libraries
Leiden Search Assistant version history - 4 versions
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Latest version
Version 2026.5.27
Released May 27, 2026 - 3.7 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and laterBug fixes
Fixed: the welcome page was not shown on first install. The onInstalled listener was incorrectly placed in the popup script rather than the background script, so it never fired.
Fixed: context menu items (right-click search) could throw "duplicate ID" errors after the service worker restarted. Menu registration now uses removeAll() before re-creating items, as required by the MV3 service worker lifecycle.
Fixed: the Get Access button could produce a broken redirect URL when the current page URL contained query parameters or special characters. The URL is now correctly percent-encoded before being passed to the EZproxy login.
Fixed: the Firefox welcome page navbar toggler had a broken reference to bootstrap.bundle.min.js, a file that was not included in the Firefox build. The navbar toggle now works correctly.
Search engine updates
Updated the Leiden University Catalogue URL to the new NDE discovery interface (catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/nde/search). All UTM tracking parameters are preserved.
Aligned the Web of Science context menu URL with the URL already used by the popup search (EZproxy rewritten domain).
Third-party libraries
Removed the bundled Bootstrap JavaScript file entirely. The only Bootstrap JavaScript functionality used (navbar collapse toggle) has been replaced with a small vanilla JavaScript equivalent. This eliminates the UNSAFE_VAR_ASSIGNMENT (innerHTML) linter warnings that originated from the Bootstrap bundle.
Bootstrap CSS updated to 5.3.7.
Accessibility
Validation alert regions changed to aria-live="assertive" so screen readers announce errors immediately when a search is submitted with an empty field or no engine selected.
Corrected type="submit" to type="button" on the Search and Get Access buttons, which are not inside a <form> element.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only
Older versions
Version 2025.8.25
Released Aug 25, 2025 - 3.72 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and laterWe have updated the URLs of our University EZproxy Servers (https://www.oclc.org/en/ezproxy.html)
Added ARIA labels for accessibility.
Performance optimizations.
Updated to Bootstrap 5.3.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only
Version 2023.8.21
Released Aug 21, 2023 - 3.72 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and laterHotfixSource code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only
Version 3.1
Released Jun 27, 2019 - 3.91 MBWorks with firefox 48.0 and laterWelcome version 3.1!
We are laying the foundations for our next release and improving the "Welcome page". There's also some work under the hood to make this plugin even better.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only