301179 - Override visited links only.

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Luke Tucker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I don't like it when web-sites decide that they will set the visited link colour
the same as the link colour in their style sheet.

Fortunately, I can override this by using default colours in the Firefox
Preferences. However my gripe is that you have to override all colours such as
background, text colour etc which makes web-sites look awful. It would be better
if I could override different aspects of style sheets independently.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open www.space.com and verify that it uses the same colour for links and
visited links.
2. Tools->Options->Font & Colors->Always use my colours.
3. Verify that the links now show you where you have been but the site looks
awful because the background has also been overridden.

Actual Results:  
My eyes hurt.

Expected Results:  
Allowed me to override the visited link colour but not the background/text colours.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to Suite Bug 220614? See Suite bug 142697 comment 4 for a workaround.

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

This is probably WONTFIX, as explained by Ian in bug 142697 comment #5.

Comment 3

[Luke Tucker]

After reading the referenced bugs, I have found that Firebox is actually capable
of exactly what I want: a user defined style sheet that lets you enable/disable
whatever you want.

This SPR can be closed/rejected.

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

Resolving as WORKSFORME per comment 3.