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visited links don't show up as visited?!
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latergator116
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Do you mean when Safari shows the rest of the link when you start typing recent one? (i.e. if I type "mac" in the URL bar it would add "rumors" on after it.
If this is what you mean (I sometimes find this feature annoying, too), you can get rid of this by periodically deleting your history.
If this is what you mean (I sometimes find this feature annoying, too), you can get rid of this by periodically deleting your history.
HexMonkey said:
I have tried refreshing, clicking the link several times and all kinds of other things. Is it possible that I have it set somplace to make both kinds of links blue (visited and unvisited). I can't find a thing in SAfari preferences that lets me change that. I think I used to be able to in Netscape. Still puzzled. 😕
HexMonkey
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It doesn't seem to do it for all links, but most of them do. Follow the following steps to find out definatively if it's working or not, as it should work for this link:
1. Go to www.google.com/about.html
2. Go to www.google.com
3. The 'About Google' link at the bottom of the page should be coloured purple
If this doesn't work, I'm not sure what the problem is. If it's really bothering you you could try deleting/moving various Safari files from your Library. ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetconfig.plist looks as though it could be a possible source. You could also try running Safari from a different user account to see if the problem is isolated to your Library folder. Also try other browsers, I've tried 10 and they all have this feature.
1. Go to www.google.com/about.html
2. Go to www.google.com
3. The 'About Google' link at the bottom of the page should be coloured purple
If this doesn't work, I'm not sure what the problem is. If it's really bothering you you could try deleting/moving various Safari files from your Library. ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetconfig.plist looks as though it could be a possible source. You could also try running Safari from a different user account to see if the problem is isolated to your Library folder. Also try other browsers, I've tried 10 and they all have this feature.
Thanks so much...it does work for google. Weird thing is it doesn't work for Macrumors or the Apple/netscape home page which was the home page on safari when I got it I think. Works on some links with USA today.com so maybe it has more to do with the web sites and if they have certain things set up like link color preferences, etc. I remember seeing something in Netscape about "using web site defaults" or something like that which I took to mean that web sites could default certin colors to links and certain fonts, etc.
Thanks so much for your time.
Johnny
Thanks so much for your time.
Johnny
HexMonkey said: