262547 - Visited links color doesn't change if it opens new tab or window, until I refresh the page

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 249890

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Haris Karahristianidis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10

As I click on a link that opens a new tab links color doesn't change untill I
refresh the page.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on a link that opens a new tab
2.The color of the link hasn't changed
3.Refresh the page
4.The color has changed



Expected Results:  
It should change as I click on it (without needing refresh) as it did till the
build of 20040929.

Comment 1

[Gary van der Merwe]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001
Firefox/0.10

Comment 2

[Rick Tilson]

Happens here, too.  This also occurs when opening a link in a new window.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041002
Firefox/0.10.1

Comment 3

[Rick Tilson]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Happens here, too.  This also occurs when opening a link in a new window.
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041002
> Firefox/0.10.1

Hm.  I just tried this again.  On my.yahoo.com, visited links change colors as
expected.  On www.buzzflash.com, it works as described in the bug.

Comment 4

[Gary van der Merwe]

WFM even on www.buzzflash.com  Which link on www.buzzflash.com? Problay dose not
work when link is <a href="#" onclick="..."> style links

Comment 5

[Rick Tilson]

(In reply to comment #4)
> WFM even on www.buzzflash.com  Which link on www.buzzflash.com? Problay dose not
> work when link is <a href="#" onclick="..."> style links

Hm, again.  For me, none of the links will change color.  I'll try with a fresh
profile and see if that helps.  Stand by.

Comment 6

[Rick Tilson]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > WFM even on www.buzzflash.com  Which link on www.buzzflash.com? Problay dose not
> > work when link is <a href="#" onclick="..."> style links
> 
> Hm, again.  For me, none of the links will change color.  I'll try with a fresh
> profile and see if that helps.  Stand by.

Nope.  Brand new, virgin profile.  My results are still the same.

Comment 7

[Rick Tilson]

Ok.  It appears from some limited testing that a link that opens a new window
will not change color.  OTH, links that open in the same window, will change
color.  That's the only correlation I can see.

Comment 8

[Haris Karahristianidis]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Ok.  It appears from some limited testing that a link that opens a new window
> will not change color.  OTH, links that open in the same window, will change
> color.  That's the only correlation I can see.

Rick, links that open in new window (or tab) change the links color, but only
after page refresh.

Comment 9

[Rick Tilson]

(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > Ok.  It appears from some limited testing that a link that opens a new window
> > will not change color.  OTH, links that open in the same window, will change
> > color.  That's the only correlation I can see.
> 
> Rick, links that open in new window (or tab) change the links color, but only
> after page refresh.

Granted, Haris. That's what your bug report said. I have a suspicion that this
is caused by the fix for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248987.  I
don't believe in coincidences and this behaviour started at the same time.  I
could, of course, be wrong.

Comment 10

[Haris Karahristianidis]

(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > (In reply to comment #7)
> > > Ok.  It appears from some limited testing that a link that opens a new window
> > > will not change color.  OTH, links that open in the same window, will change
> > > color.  That's the only correlation I can see.
> > 
> > Rick, links that open in new window (or tab) change the links color, but only
> > after page refresh.
> 
> Granted, Haris. That's what your bug report said. I have a suspicion that this
> is caused by the fix for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248987.  I
> don't believe in coincidences and this behaviour started at the same time.  I
> could, of course, be wrong.

I mean, that I think it is reasonable links that open in the same window to
change the links color, because, you go away from this page and back, it is like
a page refresh.

Comment 11

[Ger Teunis]

Even anchor do not change color (#1 etc). Try using the comment anchor inhere.
IE changes the comment links to the visited color.
I do not think "...if it opens new tab" of the summary is right, this bug isn't
limited to that.

Comment 12

[Ger Teunis]

No link color is change until the page is refreshed/reloaded.

Achors and links which create a new tab/window do not set visited color to the link.

Links which open a new page in the same window/tab only set the visited color
because the page is refreshed after getting back at the page.

Comment 13

[Haris Karahristianidis]

(In reply to comment #11)
> Even anchor do not change color (#1 etc). Try using the comment anchor inhere.
> IE changes the comment links to the visited color.
> I do not think "...if it opens new tab" of the summary is right, this bug isn't
> limited to that.

I changed it to "...if it opens new tab or window"

Comment 14

[Ger Teunis]

Isn't this bug a dupe of
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249890 ?

Comment 15

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249890 ***

Comment 16

[Rick Tilson]

I can't say whether this bug is a duplicate or not. What I can say is that I
didn't personally experience this until the 20040927 nightly build.  Until then,
visited links were marked as expected.  249290 has been open since July, and I
certainly never saw this behavior at that time.  This particular behavior isn't
limited to targeted frames.  It seems to me to be two seperate issues. 

Just my opinion.