156035 - Links do not change to "visited" when opened in a new tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78510

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Alex Gontmakher]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    20020510

When I open a link in a new tab or a new window, its status does not change to
"visited". When I press "reload" in the window, it does.

I understand it might be hard to do, since the link should change to "visited"
only when the page begins to load, and not when it is clicked, but knowing
what's visited already is very important for efficient browsing.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open almost any page with unvisited links
2. Click middle button (or whatever opens in a new tab) on any link.
3. See that it does not change into "visited"
4. Reload the page - the link snows as visited

Actual Results:  The link didn't change at all

Expected Results:  The link usually changes its color or some other aspect of
appearance when it have been visited. This doesn't happen until the "refresh"
button is clicked.

Comment 1

[Sven Krohlas]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78510 ***