> 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 <[email protected]> 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? > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
