On any given webpage, how do I reset the visited links' color so they look as if they had not been visited (i.e., like all unvisited links)?
I go to a given webpage with numerous links (my personal homepage, actually, although it could be any other) and follow a link. The link changes color (in this case, blue to magenta) to show it has been visited. Is there any way to reset an entire webpage (i.e., the settings within Firefox) so that all links on that page now show as if they had never been visited before and thus are the same color (blue)? FF 35.0.1, Win/32 7 Pro. I looked online in Mozilla Support and did not see an answer, unless I missed it. Thanks very much.
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You need to remove those links that show as visited from the history. That may not be easy if they are to different domains unless you visited them in a row with no other links visited in between.
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Thank you for your reply, and I will give thanks in advance to anyone else who might respond. I will consider your suggestion. One of the good things about the 'net is that there are many people willing to respond kindly to those of us (older people, such as myself) who do not always have sophistication.
You're welcome.
You can open the history in the sidebar and use its search bar or click the Views button to sort the history. Open the "3-bar" Firefox menu button and click the History button to open its sub menu. Click "View History Sidebar" to open the sidebar or "Show All History" to open the Bookmarks/History Manager (Library).
As a "naive" older user, I was not aware that the browsing History was accessible in this way. Thank you for the information. I was appalled that FF had saved literally tens of thousands of browsing links from the time I had first installed it. There were so many that FF "choked" when I tried to remove too many at a time. It took many minutes to remove them in bunches. FF is an excellent browser, but for us "simple," unsophisticated older people, it is not always entirely transparent in all its features.
You can clear history from the dialog box from History > Clear Recent History.
History can be useful, but yes, it can definitely pile up.
If you want to view a page without Firefox checking your regular history or storing new history, you can view it in a Private window. To open a link or bookmark in a private window, you can right-click it and look for Open in a New Private Window (or Open Link in a New Private Window). All the links should appear to be unvisited.
Did you want to do this with all web pages, or just the home page? This way might be better. Settings can be global, or single sites.
NoSquint {web link} NoSquint allows you to adjust the text-only and full-page (both text and images) zoom levels as well as color settings both globally (for all sites) and per site.
Using this add-on, you don't have to change the history. Just choose that web page for it's own settings.
I genuinely appreciate all the kind responses here. The one about the history "piling up" was especially useful, as following that one I was able to clear out an amazing amount of rubbish. (I use MozBackup to back up FF and TB for security, and the FF backup file shrank by nearly 8MB!)
As it turns out, after posting my inquiry, almost by accident I discovered a satisfactory (to me) workaround. Tools > Options > Content > Colors. Just set the unvisited and visited links to the same color. That takes care of it for all pages, as I myself do not need to have a visual distinction in unvisited/visited links. Now, however, I will know about clearing out the rubbish from time to time.
Again, thank you to everyone, and we can consider this closed.
You do not have to revert to such an action as there is a pref that controls whether to apply a visited pseudo class to links. You can toggle the layout.css.visited_links_enabled pref on the about:config page to false.
You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.