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Problem with visited links!

Discussion in 'Internet Explorer & Microsoft Edge' started by GoddessByline, 2003/10/24.

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  1. 2003/10/24
    GoddessByline

    GoddessByline Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi guys!

    I've been having problems with IE and links for a few days.
    When I've visited a link, like in an eGroup, it no longer changes colour to show that it's been visited.
    At first I thought it just was a setting in my browser. But after testing that with no luck, I thought it might be a program I installed a few days ago.
    So went back to a previous date when I knew my links where behaving like they should, but that didn't help.
    The I though it might be the fact that I switched mouse. So I switched back to the old one. No luck.
    Now I'm out of options. *sigh*

    Have anyone of you run into this problem or heard of it before?
    Anyone who knows a fix for it?

    It's very disturbing, and it's also very hard to keep track of what posts I've read in an eGroup or similare.

    OS = Win XP
    Browser = IE6

    Edited to add... I forgot to mention that I've also emtied my cashe as well as temp folder.

    Bibi
     
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    GoddessByline--The setting for this is IE Tools|Internet Options|General tab|Colors.
    However, I never have had much luck with it working. It varies from site to site. Works on a few. Often does not work at all. Sometimes works during a day, but then the colors are back to all the same the next day. I suspect it is in the cookies.
    Maybe someone else can help us both!!
    P.S. What I have said applies to visiting websites in general. I have no experience with eGroups. (In fact I do not know what they are.) If they are some sort of chatroom/newsgroup perhaps the webmaster there can help.
     
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    As I understand it, the changing-color thing is controlled by two factors...how long the browser is set to retain its history and how the individual web page is coded.

    Once the site is no longer in the browser's history...I have set mine to expire after a week...the browser has no way of knowing whether that site has been visited and it show in the "hasn't been visited" color.

    If, however, the web page's code overrides the browser's settings, the visited links aren't going to change color no matter what settings you change in your browser.

    I'm waiting for a definitive answer from our webmaster and if that second part isn't right, I'll let you know.
     
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    GoddessByline Inactive Thread Starter

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    Well, I have my history set to 99 days (don't ask why, it's always been my custom). But that's not the problem here, cause I manually empty the history as well as cashe and temp on a regulare basis. That way I always know when to expect that old visited links no longer are coloure changed.

    As for how the individual page is coded... This problem applyed to ALL pages I visit that should have links that change coloures (like Yahoo eGroups, my own website and so on...)

    Everything was okie until two days ago. It happend when I was in my Yahoo eGroup, and at first I thought that it was just that darn Yahoodzilla messing up as it does on a regulare basis.
    But today I went on a surfing spree and found out that it happens everywhere.

    Sites or groups I've visited before this happend, still have old links on them that I have visited and they are still coloure changed like they should, but when I now click on a new link that I haven't visited before on that same page, the new links do not change coloure.

    Bibi
     
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    GoddessByline Inactive Thread Starter

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    Okay, I have news!
    I've just been over reding in the two other forums that I posted in asking for help.

    Apparently, this isn't just me. Lots of people have lost this ability for links to change colore over that past two days.
    The only common denominator we can think of is the latest security update for windows from Microsoft. :(

    Hopefully they will become aware of this and release a fix relly soon, cause this is drving me nutty. *lol*

    Bibi
     
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    Heard back from our webmaster. He wrote:

    You are absolutely correct. When the code specifies the link colors,then that's what they're gonna be...like it or not. Here's an example:

    <body background= "images/gray%20pebble.jpg" bgcolor= "white" text= "black" link= "blue "
    vlink= "purple" alink= "red ">

    link is just that...the link color. vlink (visitedlink) is the visited link color. alink (activelink) is what color it becomes the instant you click on it.

    Of course, that doesn't address what seems to be the result of some Windows update which, apparently, was "tweaked" by somebody who didn't like his links changing color. ;)
     
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    GoddessByline--I have that latest IE Cumulative Patch for Win98
    MS03-040 : Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer (828750)
    and it has not caused any changes for me in the colors of links, visited or not. But maybe you have a different security patch in mind.
     
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    Well, yes there's two new ones... Win Q828026 and Win XP KB822603

    And by now there's only in my own egroup 8 people with the same problem like me and it have appered withing the last two days. At the N99 forum, there's another 4 persons, and at the Graphic Techie forum there's 12 people... So me thinks this is no coincident since no one of us are newbies and aren't likely to mess around with any settings or similar by accident. :)

    And since the US is starting to come online around this time of the night (my time), it will be interesting to see how many more there is with this problem.

    Bibi
     
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