161777 - visited link does not change color in linux

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Madhur Bhatia]

1) I see this bug only on linux.
2) A visited link does not change color as per the style mentioned. see testcase
attached.
3) even reloading the page does not help
4) re-visiting the same page does not show the link as visited.

i found the following bugs somewhat similar to this bug
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bug 128864 : clicking on a link in a frameset doesn't mark the link visited. you
need to reload the entire page to get the visited effect. 
bug 70714 : visited link doesn't cahnge color (but this is specific to mfcembed)
bug 78510 : Link should become :visited color if URL is loaded in any other
window (this tells the bug happens on all platforms)
bug 156011 : Visited links not appearing in different colour in Mozilla sidebar
(winXP plaform)
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i do not think any of these can be considered as dulicates, though.

Comment 1

[Madhur Bhatia]

Attachment: testcase

CSS pseudoclass ":visited" does not take effect

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Worksforme, current trunk linux build.  Do you have something odd in your
userContent.css?  Do you have the "Use my chosen colors" option in Prefs |
Appearance | Colors?

Comment 3

[Madhur Bhatia]

i see this on *branch* linux build : 2002-08-07-07-1.0
no ... i do not have the "use my chosen colors" option selected in pref |
appearance | colors

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

worksforme, 1.0 branch linux build, as well.

Comment 5

[Madhur Bhatia]

tested this on 2002-08-09-07-1.0 branch build (redhat linux 7.2.92), as well.

I still see the bug. 
even doing a shift+reload does not show the link visited.
other than the testcase attached, i visited some websites - www.yahoo.com,
www.google.com
The links do not show as visited. 

Comment 6

[Alec Flett]

worksforme too.. you aren't using the embedded build by any chance, are you?

Comment 7

[Madhur Bhatia]

no... i am not using an embed build.
i am using the commercial build download from ftp://sweetlou/
note that i have seen this behaviour on linux in 2 consecutive branch builds.
This does not happen on win2000 or macos10.1 platforms.

are u using the same platform i have mentioned in comment 5 ? 

Comment 8

[Madhur Bhatia]

never mind...... in my edit | preferences | history - "remember  visited pages
for teh last [] days" had  "0" in it. once i changed it to some other number, i
started seeing the links marked as visited.

Marking this bug as invalid. 

Comment 9

[Alec Flett]

heh.