313779 - some link(with visited URL) do not change color

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78510

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[dlion2005]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 CentOS/1.0.7-1.4.1.centos4 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 CentOS/1.0.7-1.4.1.centos4 Firefox/1.0.7

I am using Firefox 1.0.7. I found this:
Assume a webpage has two <a> link but their href is the same URL,  when you ctrl+clicked one of them, it will change color(mean it has been clicked), and the other link with same URL won't.
The problem is, when you then ctrl+clicked the other link(same href), this link will not change its color(to show it has been clicked).
I think this is bug.
And,
If I use click instead of ctrl+click, Firefox doesn't have such problem.
More detailed:
1. open   http://www.acm.org/awards/taward.html
2. click  "2001 Ole-Johan Dahl", the browser goes into http://www.acm.org/awards/turing_citations/dahl-nygaard.html
3. click Go Back button,  http://www.acm.org/awards/taward.html  will show up again, with both "2001 Ole-Johan Dahl" and "2001 Kristen Nygaard" changed their color. This is the correct behavior.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open this page  http://www.acm.org/awards/taward.html
2. ctrl+click  "2001 Ole-Johan Dahl", will open a new webpage and this link will change color
3. then ctrl+click "2001 Kristen Nygaard", will open a new webpage and this link will NOT change color. This is a problem. Please note that both "2001 Ole-Johan Dahl" and "2001 Kristen Nygaard" has the same link href, that is, http://www.acm.org/awards/turing_citations/dahl-nygaard.html

Actual Results:  
One link which should have changed its color failed to do so.

Expected Results:  
Both "2001 Ole-Johan Dahl" and "2001 Kristen Nygaard" should change its color, after any of them has been ctrl+clicked. Or, at least, the latter ctrl+clicked "2001 Kristen Nygaard" link should change its color after it has been ctrl+clicked.

This is not a critical bug, but I think it should be fixed, because it may waste users' time to click a link whose content has been visited in ctrl+click case.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Fixed in 1.5

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

Comment 2

[dlion2005]

I can verify that this bug has been fixed in Firefox 1.5b2 .