(In reply to watchman from comment #4) > Thank you. I tested facebook.com with a # added. That made no difference. Right, that shouldn't really make a difference, other than it's an easy way to link back to a version of the same page (which I do in my testcase). Anyway -- I take it that if you load [my testcase](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=9393625) and click the links and then load the testcase again, the links still show up as if they're un-visited? > I do *not* run in private browsing mode, have that preference set to false, settings with the same colours or any recent change to add-ons. > > I have created a new profile and the issue is *not* present there. I have been unable to ascertain why. That's good news at least. That means something is broken in your Firefox profile, but it's hard to know what it could be at a distance (particularly if it's not any of the things in comment 2). The only other thing I can think of is that maybe your history database got corrupted somehow, and so when Firefox records a page visit there, maybe it fails to get saved (and hence, links ~correctly don't show up as visited, since they're just reflecting the state of what's present in your history database). Using the profile that triggers the bug... Could you check the Firefox history-manager[1] and see if sites are showing up there (as you visit them) in a regular Firefox window, or if they're not showing up at all? [1] To get to the history manager window: click Firefox's main three-line-menu, then History, and then "Manage History" at the very bottom. And then in there, you'd probably want to click "Today" to see the sites you've visited today.
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(In reply to watchman from comment #4) > Thank you. I tested facebook.com with a # added. That made no difference. Right, that shouldn't really make a difference, other than it's an easy way to link back to a version of the same page (which I do in my testcase). Anyway -- I take it that if you load [my testcase](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=9393625) and click the links and then load the testcase again, the links still show up as if they're un-visited? > I do *not* run in private browsing mode, have that preference set to false, settings with the same colours or any recent change to add-ons. > > I have created a new profile and the issue is *not* present there. I have been unable to ascertain why. That's good news at least, in terms of this probably-not-being-a-broader-Firefox-bug. That means something is somehow broken in your main Firefox profile, but it's hard to know what it could be at a distance (particularly if it's not any of the things in comment 2). The only other thing I can think of is that maybe your history database got corrupted somehow, and so when Firefox records a page visit there, maybe it fails to get saved (and hence, links ~correctly don't show up as visited, since they're just reflecting the state of what's present in your history database). Using the profile that triggers the bug... Could you check the Firefox history-manager[1] and see if sites are showing up there (as you visit them) in a regular Firefox window, or if they're not showing up at all? [1] To get to the history manager window: click Firefox's main three-line-menu, then History, and then "Manage History" at the very bottom. And then in there, you'd probably want to click "Today" to see the sites you've visited today.
(In reply to watchman from comment #4) > Thank you. I tested facebook.com with a # added. That made no difference. Right, that shouldn't really make a difference, other than it's an easy way to link back to a version of the same page (which I do in my testcase). Anyway -- I take it that if you load [my testcase](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=9393625) and click the links and then load the testcase again, the links still show up as if they're un-visited? > I do *not* run in private browsing mode, have that preference set to false, settings with the same colours or any recent change to add-ons. > > I have created a new profile and the issue is *not* present there. I have been unable to ascertain why. That's good news at least, in terms of this probably-not-being-a-broader-Firefox-bug. That means something is somehow broken in your main Firefox profile, but it's hard to know what it could be at a distance (particularly if it's not any of the things in comment 2). The only other thing I can think of is that maybe your history database got corrupted somehow, and so when Firefox records a page visit there, maybe it fails to get saved (and hence, links ~correctly don't show up as visited, since they're just reflecting the state of what's present in your history database). Using the profile that triggers the bug... Could you check the Firefox history-manager[1] and see if sites are showing up there (as you visit them) in a regular Firefox window, vs. if they're not showing up in the history manager at all? [1] To get to the history manager window: click Firefox's main three-line-menu, then History, and then "Manage History" at the very bottom. And then in there, you'd probably want to click "Today" to see the sites you've visited today.