1037414 - visited link color

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Pawel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140605174243

Steps to reproduce:

Click on link at google or bing result search page. 
Firefox 30 on Nexus 4 Android 4.4.4. In about:config flag layout.css.visited_links_enabled is set to default value - true.


Actual results:

Link color remains blue.


Expected results:

Link color should change to visited - purple (#551A8B).

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

reopen based on bug 981078 Comment #7

Comment 3

[Bill Appledorf]

981078 says 1037414 is a duplicate of that.
1037414 says 981078 is a duplicate of this.
A classic deadlock.

Firefox on a Samsung SM-T320 Android occasionally marks a visited link with a pale blue color but usually doesn't. 

I have tried unsuccessfully to find a sequence of steps that will guarantee a visited link is marked properly as visited.

I would appreciate it very much if someone is able to look into this, 

Thank you.

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

In order to decide if a link was visited previously, Firefox will load the entire saved URL history into a HashMap, iirc. If that fails to load, or the history has been removed, the link will not appear "visited".

Comment 5

[varunnaganathan912]

Hi,I want to work on this.I have built Fennec.Could someone guide me to the location of the code where the visited links are checked?
Thanks

Comment 6

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Sorina, can you reproduce the issue in nightly?

Comment 7

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

This is still a problem. We don't store the redirect in Firefox for Android see bug 790305. If you search for Foobar then visit the Wikipedia article then navigate back to the search results the link to Wikipedia will not be marked as visited. The Google search results have urls like https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar&... which then 304 redirect to the Wikipedia page.

We can either have these marked as visited or have a verbose history with redirects that pollute the top sites. Anything else would require a considerable amount of work to the history/bookmarks database or our top sites implementation.

Comment 8

[BMO Automation]

We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.