Links no longer showing as visited after closing and reopening tab in Firefox, or closing and reopening Firefox browser.

Question

<p>(Edited to make easier to read)</p>
<p>Also, if I click on a link and it turns purple then I refresh the page, the link turns back to blue (unvisited / unread).</p>
<p>Is this something new with version 7?</p>
<p>I'm using Firefox 7.0.1 (when did it update to this version?)</p>
<p>In >Options >Privacy tab
For 'history' I have selected:
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Use custom settings for history
<br>
Remember my browsing history: (Checked)
<br>
Remember download history: (Checked)
<br>
Remember search and form history: (Not checked)
<br>
Accept cookies from sites: (Checked)
<br>
Accept third-party cookies: (unchecked)
<br>
Keep until: 'I close Firefox'
<br>
Clear history when firefox closes:</p>
<p>Only selections checked are:
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Cookies
<br>
Active logins
<br>
Cache</p>
<p>Also, I always have NoScript enabled and only 'allow' on a case by case basis (even for sites I visit regularly) and even this seems to have some sites already allowed when I revisit them (mainly login URLs) when this didn't used to happen.</p>
<p>My main issue right now though is the visited links not staying coloured purple (read / visited).</p>
<p>I love Firefox and don't want to change to another browser if I don't have to (Linus / Ubuntu would be my next choice).</p>
<p>Thank you in advance for any information you can offer.</p>

Answer 1

<p>Thanks for the reply cor-el!</p>
<p><b>Make sure that the History is enabled: Tools > Options > Privacy > History: Remember my browsing history</b>
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I have selected:
<br>
'Use custom settings for history' with only the following options checked:
<br>
Remember my browsing history: (Checked)
<br>
Remember download history: (Checked)
<br>
Accept cookies from sites: (Checked)</p>
<p>Keep until: 'I close Firefox'</p>
<p>Then I have this selection:
'Clear history when firefox closes'</p>
<p>And the only 'settings' selected / checked are:
<br>
Cookies (CORRECTION: I don't have cookies selected because I always manually delete all cookies whenever I close the browser)
<br>
Active logins
<br>
Cache</p>
<p><b>Make sure that you do not run Firefox in permanent Private Browsing mode.</b>
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Yes, I've made sure that option is not selected.</p>
<p>My NoScript settings keeps changing to 'allow' sites when I have it set to be always on (to not allow scripts from any sites) and only allow on a case by case basis even with sites I visit regularly. Could this be correlated?</p>
<p>Why do I have to use html in order for the text separated into sentences and paragraphs, rather than being bunched all together?</p>