302154 - Link should become :visited color if URL is loaded in the same window, and the back button is pressed to return to the page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 293235

(Camino Graveyard :: History, defect)

Description

[Gena Wilson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050722 Camino/0.9a2+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050722 Camino/0.9a2+

If I click a link on a page so it opens in the same window/tab and then use the
back button or keyboard commands to return to the original page, the visited
link does not keep its visited state after the cursor moves within the active
window (though it does keep the dotted border focus).  If a second link on that
page is clicked and I use the back button again, there is no
color/decoration/focus to display that the first link had been clicked, even
temporarily.

This is similar to bugs 10491 and 78510, and may be due to attempts at resolving
them.  Please mark as a duplicate if you see fit.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to a site with many links -- any craigslist page is a good example
2. click a link normally (with no special target, etc.) and allow it to load in
the same window and tab
3. click the back button

repeat as necessary with different links and observe the same result

Actual Results:  
after step 3, the link clicked in step 2 will have the visited link color, what
appears to be the hover state (underlined text), and what appears to be the
focus state (a dotted box).  bringing your pointer back onto the window and off
the chrome (from clicking the back button) will remove the underline and the
visited color, but leave the focus. clicking anywhere on the page removes the focus.

Expected Results:  
In builds perhaps three weeks old, this behaved as expected -- on returning to
the original page, all links visited in this way had the visited state, and the
last link visited had the focus state as well.  recently (perhaps in the two
weeks?) this changed so that all links visited in this way had the *focus* state
when the linking page was reached via going back, and kept it (so that instead
of all visited links being purple, they would all have dotted outlines until the
page was refreshed, whereupon they would become purple).  in the build I am
currently using, a couple days old, results are as described in "actual results."

Tiger 10.4.2. This is not present in FF 1.0.6.

Comment 1

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

It's actually bug 293235 (because it only happens with "blazingly fast back")
but it depends on 78510, and both should be fixed soon :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 293235 ***