Distinguish between visited and non-visited links after quitting

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

 affects midori
 affects debian
 done

On sam., 2011-10-08 at 00:00 +0200, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:
> Hello!
>
> When I follow a link from a web page, that link changes style
> (by default from blue-color to violet-color, but other stylistic
> changes may be defined by the CSS stylesheet used by the web page).
> This behavior is common to many web browsers (it is mandated by
> W3C standards, if I recall correctly) and Midori is no exception.
>
> However, Galeon, Iceweasel, and also Chromium remember visited
> links (and continue to show them in "visited link" style) across
> sessions, as long as the visited page is present in the browser
> history. This is not the case for Midori (or for Epiphany,
> for that matter): visited links seem to be forgotten, as soon as
> I quit Midori.
>
> This is unpractical, as I find it useful to clearly see which links
> I have already visited during recent browsing sessions (say,
> in the past few days or weeks).
>
> Is this an intended behavior or a bug?
>
>
To be honest I'm not sure. But it seems here it doesn't even change
color when I click on links so it might just be broken.

Regards,
--
Yves-Alexis

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

Color is expected to change when you browse without closing Midori, except if you open separate tabs it may not.

This comes down to a missing feature in WebKitGTK+, see https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32789