Google visited links indication failure

Background
Normally when browsers load a page they render previously visited links listed in History in a distinctive default colour. Style statements on the page, or elsewhere, can override this colour.
Some pages use JavaScript to dynamically change a link's colour without reloading the page. This is particularly useful when the link opens another window.
All this worked efficiently with Google searches until its JavaScript was changed a few years ago. Google now modifies the URL of links opening in other windows so that the URL is no longer the same as the one stored in History prior to the latest browser launch. The modified links contain random characters so that each launch of the browser contains different URLs for the same page hence inhibiting normal visited link indication.
Google visited links indication failure occurs for links that open another window, frame or tab caused by:
user's Google settings or
selecting a new window by right clicking or
using a page or link which puts 'newwindow=1' in the search results URL.
Google visited links indication failure can be avoided by never shutting down the browser or by not invoking a new window.
RemedyI have developed a Launch Agent containing a bash script which modifies History.plist items containing Google redirects. This works well but I have only been able to use the script after quitting from Safari so I run the Launch Agent at login or via the following AppleScript:tell application "Safari" to quit without saving
do shell script "launchctl start reset-safari"
Questions
Does anybody know of any similar developments or workarounds?
Does anybody know of a way to do this without quitting from Safari? ie is it possible to tell Safari to reload its memory without it overwriting the History.plist file first?

Switch to Bing.  Much easier.  I've been using that search engine by default for several years now, specifically because of this and other related Google search (mis)behaviors.  
With Bing, it's possible to cut-n-paste the web site's URL directly out of the Bing results without having to visit the page, and without having to resort to Safari extensions.
Bing also tends to get less "reverse ranking algorithm engineering", which means that the Bing results tend to be less filled with cruft, as compared with the results for common Google searches. 
Once in a while I'll use DogPile (which searches across multiple search engines), or a specific engine at DuckDuckGo, Blekko or Google for a specific (and usually more arcane) search query.   (But I was doing that with Google, too.)  Each search provider has different coverage with their web crawlers, and different ranking schemes.

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