59304 - Visited redirect links don't change color!

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 41973

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect, P3)

Description

[sujay]

This is Browser 101 here....

using 11/6 branch build of netscape

1) launch netscape
2) jump to any page with links
3) click on any link on that page
4) no go Back and notice that the visited link doesn't change color!

all platforms.

Comment 1

[sujay]

changing component to Layout

this bug could be related to bug 58534

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

i'm seeing this using today's linux comm branch bits, 2000.11.06.09-n6 [so also
confirming what sujay sees].

Comment 3

[sujay]

adding rtm keyword.

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

don/anyone, who should get this?

Comment 5

[lchiang]

I just tried this in the 2000-11-06-00 Win32 build and the link changes color
for me when I go Back.  I have never changed any settings in my prefs for link
colors.

Pls try a new profile.

Comment 6

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

Worksforme on both trunk and branch builds from 11/1, default moz profile.

Comment 7

[Jason Kersey]

Worksforme - windows 2000, 110600mn6

Comment 8

[cpratt]

Works for me: Windows 98 SE, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m18) 
Gecko/20001106 Netscape6/6.0

Comment 9

[John Morrison]

For me, on a simple test page '<a href="foo">bar</a>' will always change color.
But it, in general, is not changing color at netscape.com, and curiously 
starts changing color after using www.yahoo.com for awhile (but never the 
top-level page). Yahoo is a very vanilla HTML page, no CSS at all.

Ian/Marc, there was some work being done on the :link and :visited and user
preferences -- what should I expect to see?

Comment 10

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

yeah, after a bit more persistant digging at yahoo, i'm now seeing the visited
link color appear --it can be seen in the 'breadcrumb' links near the top of the
pages, eg Home > Arts > Design Arts > Architecture... tested this out with a new
profile, a migrated one, and an old one [linux, tho', comm branch].

Comment 11

[selmer (gone)]

rtm-, not a stop ship.  Not reproducible enough.

Comment 12

[John Morrison]

One specific case where we are not getting :visited coloration (and likely why
this is hit and miss at top100 sites), is that a link which points to a 
redirect (e.g., Location: /somewhere/else) will not be marked as visited,
possibly since this is skipped out of session history. 

Example page at http://jrgm.mcom.com/adhoc/list-of-redirects.html

Comment 13

[John Morrison]

Um, when did 3 out of 7 testers become "not reproducible enough"? :-]

But, I just tried a Sep15 Mozilla build, and it shows this behaviour too, so
we've been living with it for a long time ...

Comment 14

[sujay]

I'm baffled.

it works for me on this site: http://www.news.com

but still not working for me at http://www.yahoo.com

Comment 15

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

Ok, confirmed on www.yahoo.com with the main directory structure.

Possibly related: Bug 29080 "Visited links @ Deja.com don't change color"

Comment 16

[timeless]

yahoo uses redirects. Updating summary.
setting url to jrgm's testcase
marking top100 for yahoo [i presume it's top100]
sending to history
Given this triage I think it's probably a dupe, but not of Bug 29080.

Comment 17

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

Marking duplicate of bug 41973 "Redirected links are not marked Visited" then.
The URL in that bug is already http://www.yahoo.com ...


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41973 ***

Comment 18

[timeless]

vrfy dupe, thanks Andreas Franke