1777312 - Firefox 100.0 and later, after clearing full history, visited links colors do not revert

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1762387

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[ericj]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0

Steps to reproduce:

1.) Start Firefox 100.0 or later (tested up to 102.0) using a brand new profile (tested on both openSUSE 15.3 x86_64 and MS Windows).
2.) Visit a webpage with a hyperlink. Click on that hyperlink. Go back to the original page with the hyperlink. The color of the link will change to 'visited' color.
3.) Clear History via History --> Clear Recent History --> Timerange=Everything. Check all boxes. Clear the history.
4.) Refresh the tab.

Actual results:

1.) The hyperlink is still in the 'visited' color.
2.) Open the same page in a new tab (duplicate tab works). That new tab reflects the 'never visited' hyperlink color.
3.) OR, restart the browser and visit that page with the hyperlink. The hyperlink also reflects the proper 'never visited' hyperlink color.

Expected results:

Prior for Firefox 100.0, (99.0 for sure), you simply had to refresh the tab on the page with the hyperlink after clearing your history to reset the link color. Now, you have to either open it in a new tab or restart the browser to reset the hyperlink color after clearing history.

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]:

Regression window:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=4609ba977dfe47c03811d9e42b747a72913638fc&tochange=ad9c69e7ecf4d55e9bc649e09b7e4f1cc077c21c

Regressed by: Bug 1760674

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

Emilio , your patch seems to be causing regression. Could you please look into this?