Automatically redirect to another webpage when a website prefix is detected in Firefox

Question

Is there a simple way to redirect a webrowser (Firefox) to another website whenever the actual page starts with a prefix?

My case is with IEEEXplore, I'd like to redirect

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/<DOC_NUMBER>

instead of

https://<OUR_UNIVERSITY_IEEEXPLORE_LINK>/document/<DOC_NUMBER>

The same with some other services, basically i need just to replace the prefix. any ideas about how to do it? preferably in Firefox.

Best regards,

Answer 1

webRequest.onBeforeRequest allows you to intercept requests and redirect them. You can also limit it to top level loads by filtering on details.type