visited links display

Maurice

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Aug 11, 2012, 9:46:31 PM8/11/12

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When I visit several pages on a web site the corresponding turn from
blue to magenta. That's fine, but if I close FF and reload it later the
previous visited links remain magenta.
Is it possible to reset all the links status to "non visited" at the end
of a session without clearing the browsing history (doing so clears the
open tabs list and I would avoid that)?

WLS

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Aug 11, 2012, 9:52:04 PM8/11/12

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Nope

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»Q«

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Aug 11, 2012, 10:09:02 PM8/11/12

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You can't reset the link status without removing the link from history.

The Session Manager extension *might* save your open tabs even though
you clear history at shutdown, though. I say "might" because I don't
use it and I'm not clear on how it interacts with history. If you try
it, good luck. :) <http://sessionmanager.mozdev.org/>

Chuck Anderson

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Aug 11, 2012, 10:23:27 PM8/11/12

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There is an extension that may help (I don't use it):
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-visitor-3/

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Good Guy

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Aug 12, 2012, 12:18:04 AM8/12/12

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you can provided you don't mind if your browser can't remember your
browsing history. If you want this then try:

Tools >> Options >> Privacy

change to Never Remember History.

Click OK and you are done.

See this picture:

<http://tinyurl.com/9oaku75>

Good luck.

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Maurice

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Aug 12, 2012, 4:35:16 AM8/12/12

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Thanks for the idea. Tab Mix Plus, which I use, does the job:
- in FF: clear the history (that clears the visited status on all links)
- in Tab Mix Plus: enable session manager, save on exit, restore on
start, startup with last session, preserve history and tab list.
Now when I restart FF all tabs are present and all the links appear as
no visited.

Tarkus

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Aug 12, 2012, 2:52:12 PM8/12/12

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On 8/11/2012 9:18 PM, Good Guy wrote:
> On 12/08/2012 02:46, Maurice wrote:
>> When I visit several pages on a web site the corresponding turn from
>> blue to magenta. That's fine, but if I close FF and reload it later the
>> previous visited links remain magenta.
>> Is it possible to reset all the links status to "non visited" at the end
>> of a session without clearing the browsing history (doing so clears the
>> open tabs list and I would avoid that)?
>
> you can provided you don't mind if your browser can't remember your
> browsing history.

*"without clearing the browsing history"*

Maurice

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Aug 12, 2012, 6:18:54 PM8/12/12

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If you use TMP as explained in my previous post a kind of history is
preserved.
In fact the browsing history is cleared in FF (the pull-down list is
empty) but the closed tabs list is still there,and each tab has its "own
history": if you reload a tab from the list you can go back/forward as
you did before closing it. The groups of tabs are also preserved and you
can decide to not load them before selected.