# Article Galaxy Browser Extension

> With a single click of a button, buy, access, or rent any scientific document directly from your search results with a shopping-cart like user experience on PubMed, Google Scholar and more than 80 other scholarly literature sites.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/article-galaxy-browser-ext](https://chrome-stats.com/d/article-galaxy-browser-ext)

## Overview

- **ID:** `article-galaxy-browser-ext`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Research Solutions
- **Category:** search-tools
- **Daily users:** 25
- **Version:** 1.2.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-08-12
- **First published:** 2022-09-16
- **Size:** 10 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/article-galaxy-browser-ext/)

## Description

Article Galaxy Browser Extension allows you to quickly and easily buy, access, or rent scientific documents from various scholarly literature sites. It offers a shopping-cart like user experience on PubMed, Google Scholar, and over 80 other sites. Filter for lowest cost access, gain insights with Scite, integrate with reference management tools, and explore purchase and rental options for any citation.

## Rankings

- #22,543 — Overall
- #12 — article
- #51 — browser extension
- #142 — benefit
- #238 — browser

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `storage`
- `webRequest`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/article-galaxy-browser-ext)