Bug 68296

Summary:

Visited link coloring does not work in Private Browsing

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Jessie Berlin <jberlin>

Component:

WebCore Misc.

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

NEW

Severity:

Normal

CC:

beidson, jberlin

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

Unspecified

OS:

Unspecified

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Test case	none

Jessie Berlin

Reported 2011-09-16 17:46:00 PDT

Steps to reproduce: 1. Enter Private Browsing mode. 2. Open the attached page with a link. 3. Click the link. 4. Go back. 5. Note that the link is not pink. It should be - indicating that it was visited.

Attachments
Test case (247 bytes, text/html) 2011-09-19 08:32 PDT, Jessie Berlin	no flags	Details
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Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 1 2011-09-17 13:31:57 PDT

> 2. Open the attached page with a link. Does this depend on page? I'm asking because there isn't one attached. Did this work in Safari 5.0?

Jessie Berlin

Comment 2 2011-09-19 08:32:35 PDT

Created attachment 107860 [details] Test case Apologies, I meant to attach this when creating the bug. I have not yet tested with 5.0, but I did talk with Brady and he mentioned that visited link coloring should work even while in Private Browsing. We don't give the information about the link color / visited state to the web page and therefore it cannot be used to track the user, so we should provide the user with the visited link information.

Jessie Berlin

Comment 3 2011-09-19 09:52:49 PDT

This is not a regression from 5.0.5 on Snow Leopard.

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