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> Not sure if sites could detect / query the color specified & see that it
isn't the default purple?

I'm not sure if it's at all related to why TBB wasn''t changing the colour,
but a while back there was a bit of JS released used essentially tried to
map your browser history out by including a huge number of links and then
checking what colour they were -
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/03/browser_history_sniffing/


On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Joe Btfsplk <joebtfsplk@gmx.com> wrote:

> Visited links in TBB (4.0.3 and up).
> Sorry, didn't find anything in https://www.torproject.org/
> projects/torbrowser/design/
> or FAQs or in any filed bugs, about how TBB handles visited links turning
> colors.
>
> Should TBB visited links turn color, or not - by design?
> At 1st, no visited links were turning colors in TBB 4.0.3 - Win.
>
> Checked & the pref: browser.visited_color; #551A8B was at default value.
> I assumed links didn't turn colors either because of private browsing
> mode, or TBB modified to prevent links from turning colors.
>
> To see if it was private browsing, I disabled that in Torbutton &
> restarted.
> They still didn't change.   I re-enabled private browsing AND all 4 boxes
> are checked under Torbutton > Privacy tab (as is the default).
>
> When restarted TBB again, links *did* change color (to default dark
> purple).
> Re-checked Torbutton Privacy tab - all 4 options still checked.
> After still another restart, links no longer turned color (private
> browsing still enabled in Torbutton).
>
> Not sure what happened - wanted to make sure TBB is behaving as designed -
> if they should / should not turn color?
>
> Side question:  I assume if TBB allows them to turn color, that it may not
> be wise to choose a non-default visited link color?
>
> Not sure if sites could detect / query the color specified & see that it
> isn't the default purple?
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