Hi Everyone

You may have seen the recent message from ICTS when you login to the Wiki about just using I.E, Safari or Firefox on shared computers.

The problem this addresses also occurs with EBL ebooks. The Chrome browser now seems to use cookie information to log you into a service. On a shared computer, the cookie may have been left by a previous user and you can end up with their session. This is why ICTS is concerned about wiki access.

For EBL eBooks it can mean that a user just sees a generic bookshelf, rather than the books that they have been reading. On campus, Ezproxy is automatically logged-in for most databases. This automatic login is shared by everyone. However, EBL forces an individual user to login, so that they see just their history. Unfortunately the latest version of Chrome over-rides this and our users can get the shared ‘background’ login.

This should not be a problem off-campus, but if anybody reports strange problems with EBL books on campus, recommend that they use a browser other than Chrome. We are looking at other solutions.

Peter K