301846 - visited link color does not change

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78510

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Al Goldis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050721 Camino/0.9a2+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050721 Camino/0.9a2+

Link color does not change but instead a non-animated dotted line "marquee" is
drawn around the link.  Most apparent when using a page with lots of links, the
bugzilla search page for example, and using the Back button to return to the
page. However, if the link does not load immediately, you can observe the
marquee and no color change on the original page.

The marquee only remains around the most recently clicked link, and no link
colors are changed.

Reloading the page restores the correct link colors.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a page with at least one link. 
2. Click a link.  (If the link does not load immediately, you can observe the
marquee and no color change.)
3. Use the Back button or keyboard command to return to the original page.

Actual Results:  
No link color changes and a dotted line, non-animated "marquee" remains around
the most recently clicked link.

Expected Results:  
Changed color for visited links.

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I'm not completely sure what you mean. I click on links here in Bugzilla and
they change from blue to purple, showing they've been visited.

Some sites may specify that the visited color and the regular color are the same
color. Can you provide a specific link?

Comment 2

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

The link color has never changed to "visited" before the next page loads. Also,
the link color still not being changed when you click "back" is (IIRC) a current
side effect of bfcache (fastback).

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> the link color still not being changed when you click "back" is (IIRC) a current
> side effect of bfcache (fastback).

Only in Firefox.  They forked core code and fixed it prior to bfcache, but the
code Camino and SeaMonkey use is still busted (you can verify by turning bfcache
off).

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

Comment 4

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Er, wait, I read that too fast and got confused.  The reporter describes both
bug 78510 and bug 293235 (the bfcache-back bug Wevah's comment mentions).

Since bug 78510 is about to be fixed and is needed for bug 293235 to be fixed
(and it should be fixed before Gecko branches for 1.8), I'm not going to change
which bug this is duped to and create more bugspam.  Sorry for the too-quick-read.