366810 - remember pages will not forget

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[dan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

no matter how low i set the remember pages option to, even if i uncheck the option so that it should not remember pages visited, it shows links in red.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.visit a page from a list of pages (click on a link)
2.close the browser
3.view the link again - it's still red, even if remember pages option is not selected.
Actual Results:  
links are still red.  i cannot get it to NOT remember links/pages visited.

Expected Results:  
links should be blue after the number of days selected or blue always if the option is not selected.

the software should have followed the choice made in options/history for remember pages for __ days.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

I can't reproduce this with the build you're using. When I set history to 0 days and I restart, the sidebar is empty.
When I do a lot of searches with google however, visit a lot of search results, restart and come back to the google pages, some of those links will be marked as visited. For an explanation why, see Bug 330332 comment 4 and 5.
A way to solve this is to use the Clear Private Data tool on exit. (Tools > Options > Privacy > Private Data.) 

Comment 2

[dan]

I have a web page on my desktop of links.  I want to visit the sites periodically, which is why I changed the # of days to remember.  Now that I've set memory/history off, new sites I visit are not turned red when I go back and view the page I clicked from.  But the links in the web page on my desktop remain red.  Also I am on version 2.0.0.1 and I cannot find any option to clear the history.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

not going to take further fixes on 2.x, feel free to reopen if you can reproduce on 3.x or current trunk