OverDrive Login Helper

By BlindWanderer Last update Oct 18, 2010 — Installed 81 times.


Script Summary: Remembers the users library card number and other login credentials (but not masked fields/password fields).

Version: 0.7

Problem: OverDrive based digital library login forms often aren't recognized by the browser as login forms. The browser doesn't ask to remember the login credentials; nor does it restore them.

Solution: This script lets the user store, and auto-restore login credentials for OverDrive library login pages.

Warning:

  • It intentionally does not store the values in password fields; use the browser's built in credentials handler.
  • No effort is made to encrypt or even obfuscate the save credentials. They are stored in plain text in the browsers settings.
  • This script requires Firefox 3.1 or later (it uses JSON to serialize the fields we are interested in; which was only added in 3.1).