Visited links not changing colors in Firefox

I have just recently installed Firefox browser just to see what all the hype
is about and can honestly say that so far I am very pleased with it.
However, I do have one minor issue (ok a few such as google toolbar doesn't
work with it, it doesn't work well with some website, but that's besides the
point). In I.E. when you click on a link on a webpage, after you return to
the original webpage the visited link would have changed color to indicate
the page was visited. This is helpful in web forums where your reading a
list of messages and it makes it easier to remember which topics you already
clicked on. However, with Firefox this doesn't happen. I did go into
options>general>fonts and colors>under link colors unvisited links is blue
and visited links is red. I should point out that when I click on the link
it will only change color when I click on it, but when I release my finger
from the mouse button it changes back to blue. Is there something I'm not
doing right in the settings or is this just a flaw of Firefox.
Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas

 

Have you tried Googlebar?

http://tinyurl.com/5qdg5

I doubt that this is FF's fault -- probably bad coding/sites requiring
ActiveX/etc.

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Perhaps this is the way the CSS (stylesheet) for the site intended it?

Can you provide a link?

 

I'm not sure about that since on the same site in which the links will not
change color in FF they will change color in I.E.

Here's one for an example:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com

Also I forgot to mention that I have set FF as my default browser meaning
when I click on a link from Outlook Express it will open up the FF browser
rather than IE. The links in OLE do change color.

 

The links change colour, here. I don't quite know what's wrong, sorry.

 

Firefox has no 'Options' such as IE and OE have. It is Edit /
'Preferences' / double click Composer to expand the list, select New
Page Settings. Edit here.




unvisited links is blue

 

I guess the "Tools" menu and "Options" item in Firefox is just a
figment of my imagination, eh? You're confusing Firefox with
another app, or perhaps a *really* old version of Firefox.

 

Yes.
No I am not.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
This is a current version, ttbomk
Anyway, it doesn't matter. Compose, I have just discovered, is only used
for composing your web pages which of course, do not have any effect on
others.

 

You're using Mozilla, not Firefox. There *is* a difference.

 

You're using Mozilla, not Firefox. There *is* a difference. If you
were using Firefox, you'd see "Firefox/1.0" at the end of what you posted
above.

 

Try refreshing the page. It should show the links colored differently. I
have found that if I remain on a page orjust bounce back and forth the
links remain blue as you suggest but once the page is reloaded or
refreshed the links are now red.

mAineAc

 

This is a bug. The historic is set to 0 after the installation.
So it is a total alzeimer regarding visited links.
Go to Options / Private / Expand History and put some other value than
0.

Tibodo

 

Thanks a bunch. That solved the problem.