Bug 51747 – [Gtk] Colour links which have already been visited (history)

• Component: History
• Status: UNCONFIRMED

[Mason Larobina]

This is an excerpt from a message sent to the webkit-gtk mailing list in June 2010 (as no bug was raised about it as far as I can tell):

http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg00289.html

> I am writing a little browser to browse local html files using webkit-gtk. When 
> I restart the browser, I want it to color links which were visited in previous 
> sessions. No problem I thought, save visited uris in a file, read them back and 
> call
>
> webkit_web_history_item_new_with_data(uri,title);
>
> But the links aren't coloured even though:
>
> Quote from http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkitgtk-WebKitWebHistoryItem.html:
>
> The global history is used for coloring the links of visited sites. 
> WebKitWebHistoryItem's constructed with webkit_web_history_item_new  and 
> webkit_web_history_item_new_with_data  are automatically added to the global 
> history.
>
> Links visted in previous sessions aren't coloured in midori and epiphany 
> either. They seem to have my problem too. They have even the problem to 
> coordinate the histories of two tabs: Only links visited in the tab itself are 
> coloured.
> Webkit-gtk's cousins arora (webkit-qt) and chromium colour them. They don't 
> have my problem. (Neither firefox nor ie)
>
> Am I missing something here? Is this a bug or a feature? I don't want to load 
> every page I have previously visited to get their links coloured.
>
> I'm using ubuntu 10.04.
>
> I hope you can understand my Deutsch-English and thanks for your work.
>
> Yours
> asdfgh2091

I can confirm the same problem on Gentoo Linux & Archlinux using webkit-gtk versions 1.2.5 & 1.2.3.

[SA]

Same problem here, version 1.2.5.