1229915 - Browser link color remains unchanged after visiting

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 870262

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Browser, defect)

Description

[Pi Wei Cheng [:piwei] (inactive)]

Attachment: logcat of issue

Description:
Links that user has visited before remain unchanged in color. This is different in every other browser I've used, which change link color from blue to purple, with purple indicating it has been visited before.

STR:
0) Ensure you're not using private browsing
1) Search anything in search bar that will return results in Google search page
2) Tap on a search result to visit a website
3) Tap on back arrow button on browser and observe

Expected: Link color would change for the page visited at step 2

Actual: Link color remains unchanged

Repro rate: 5/5

Video showing the issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KptdDVIBBEY

Attaching a logcat.

Issue observed on:
Device: Flame 2.6
BuildID: 20151202030236
Gaia: 7847a3c1b28e039631509978518b36fd3c5f9585
Gecko: 470f4f8c2b2d6f82e56e161a4b05262c85f55b59
Gonk: 205ac4204bbbb2098a8046444acba551ba5dc75a
Version: 45.0a1 (2.6) 
Firmware Version: v18Dv4
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:45.0) Gecko/45.0 Firefox/45.0

Device: Aries 2.6
BuildID: 20151202152725
Gaia: d379f6f96cd716467568a4d8ca2472fc5be5c577
Gecko: 8e007a507475df919661a757b18f728ca130b87a
Gonk: a19052e4389c3ae2d8fc3e7a74a475401baacc56
Version: 45.0a1 (2.6) 
Firmware Version: D5803_23.1.A.1.28_NCB.ftf
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:45.0) Gecko/45.0 Firefox/45.0

Comment 1

[Pi Wei Cheng [:piwei] (inactive)]

Flame 2.5 and 2.2 are affected.

Device: Flame 2.5
BuildID: 20151202161543
Gaia: 2d54c29f429bed790b5d8284633812dc2b782518
Gecko: 90cfa13f91aa4bb811f6f651e2e3ad7d2bddbb3d
Gonk: 205ac4204bbbb2098a8046444acba551ba5dc75a
Version: 44.0a2 (2.5) 
Firmware Version: v18Dv4
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:44.0) Gecko/44.0 Firefox/44.0

Device: Flame 2.2
BuildID: 20151202032506
Gaia: 885647d92208fb67574ced44004ab2f29d23cb45
Gecko: 4381c4b69b9c
Gonk: bd9cb3af2a0354577a6903917bc826489050b40d
Version: 37.0 (2.2) 
Firmware Version: v18Dv4
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:37.0) Gecko/37.0 Firefox/37.0

Comment 2

[Jayme Mercado [:JMercado] (Inactive 3/4/2016)]

Alison can I get your opinion here?  Not sure this should block, but it's definitely odd.

Note: I checked this on my Android device, and Firefox for Android behaves the same.

Comment 3

[Alison Shiue]

It would be more user friendly that changing link color to indicate the site has ever been visited.
NI UX for their opinion about this behavior.

Comment 4

[Tiffanie Shakespeare [:tif]]

From UX triage:

We would expect the link to be purple as well. I would think this is either a website's css style or we are ignoring the website's a-visited color css style. 

Thanks for pinging the UX team!

Comment 5

[Alison Shiue]

Hi Ben,

Could you please help to check this issue or dispatch to suitable person to help check? Thank you.

Comment 6

[Ben Francis [:benfrancis]]

This has been the case since version 1.0. It's because we disable global history in Gecko and track history in Gaia instead so Gecko doesn't know which pages have been visited in order to apply the visited style. There was some work going to implement this in bug 870262 but it seems to have stalled.