Bug 18833

Summary: visited links do not change color until hover
Product: WebKit Reporter: Eric Seidel (no email) <eric>
Component: CSSAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 525.x (Safari 3.1)   
Hardware: PC   
OS: OS X 10.5   

Description Eric Seidel (no email) 2008-05-01 13:26:46 PDT 
visited links do not change color until hover

1.  Right-click on some link and select "open in new tab"
2.  notice how the link does not change color.
3.  Hover over the link with your mouse (now it changes to the :visited color!)

I was certain there was another copy of this bug in bugzilla somewhere, but I didn't see it when searching.
Comment 1 Eric Seidel (no email) 2008-05-01 13:29:36 PDT 
One option would be to do what IE does, and just mark any link as visited as soon as you click on it (and hope that that's correct).  That doesn't cover the "mark all the other links in the document which point to the same url" case, but it's better than nothing.
Comment 2 Mark Rowe (bdash) 2008-05-01 14:37:56 PDT 
Eric, I'm pretty sure this has been fixed.  Can you please test in a nightly build rather than in Safari 3.1?
Comment 3 Eric Seidel (no email) 2008-05-01 15:37:27 PDT 
Yup.  Looks like it works on TOT.