198078 - Please change link color to "visited" when I middle-click to open a link in a new tab

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 78510

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Ken Beal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

If I single-click on a link, opening it in the current window, and then click
Back to return to the previous page, the link that I just chose will be in a
different color, indicating that I've already visited it.

However, if I open a link in a new tab by using the middle-click, the link on
the original page stays the same color.  I like to read Excite, Slashdot,
LinuxToday, etc. by opening the main page and then middle-clicking each of the
articles I'm interested in, then visiting them separately.  But sometimes a
distraction occurs (phone call, wife, etc.), and when I get back it's not clear
which links I've already opened.

By changing the link color on the original page when the link is middle-clicked,
it would solve this problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Middle-click on a link to open it in a new tab (once the Preferences are set
properly).
2. The link color does not change to "visited" on the original page.

Comment 1

[Sébastien Delahaye]

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

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

v dupe