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Firefox Problem (Vanity)
me | December 22, 2004 | me

Posted on 12/22/2004 2:53:00 PM PST by facedown

I have just switched over to Firefox as my main browser and it works great especially after I did the "about:config" tip from KoRn on another thread.

The problem is that I don't get the color change for visited URL's. If I go to Tools>Options>General>Fonts & Colors it says I have blue unvisited links, which I do and can change the color of them, and red visited links which is not occurring.

I'm guessing that there's something that I need to toggle in "about:config" but I'm about blind from scanning through them. I found the ones for the colors themselves but can't find one that looks like it would inactivate the color change.


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Advice requested.
1 posted on 12/22/2004 2:53:01 PM PST by facedown
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To: KoRn; rdb3; ShadowAce; holymoly; soccer_linux_mozilla; mhking
One time ping to you folks who seem pretty savvy about Firefox.
2 posted on 12/22/2004 2:55:33 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: facedown

ON the Options box, hit the fonts & colors button, then, at the bottom of the window, check the boxes for "always use my"


3 posted on 12/22/2004 2:55:37 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (Democrats: Tolerant of all people and opinions. Except me & mine - Conservative, Christian.)
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To: facedown

Back in the days when I used IE I had the same thing happen. I cleared the history and started over and it seemed to fix the problem. I use Netscape now but am considering Firefox.


4 posted on 12/22/2004 2:57:13 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Keith in Iowa
On the Options box, hit the fonts & colors button, then, at the bottom of the window, check the boxes for "always use my"

Thanks for that info. My work installation has the problem; my home installation doesn't. Both are running Firefox 1.0. I was running the last beta version for several months and am just now learning the power of a tabbed browser. Firefox runs a lot better than Netscape and faster, I think, than Mozilla (its big brother, and near kin to Netscape).

5 posted on 12/22/2004 3:02:46 PM PST by RhoTheta (Democrats are the coalition of the coerced and the bribed!)
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To: facedown

Have you tried thinking in Russian?

(...couldn't help myself...)


6 posted on 12/22/2004 3:03:35 PM PST by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: facedown

http://www.avantbrowser.com/


7 posted on 12/22/2004 3:05:07 PM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: facedown

Links changing colors. Hell, I can't even get it to use my internet connection. All the other browsers work (IE, Netscape, Opera, Voyager, Mozilla. Checked to make sure it wasn't looking for a proxy (it wasn't). Always says "The connection was refused when attemptimg to contact www.freerepublic.com". Anyone have any thoughts?


8 posted on 12/22/2004 3:08:25 PM PST by Still Thinking (Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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To: facedown
You can add an extension called LinkVisitor 1.0.2004021 from the web page link below.

LinkVisitor 1.0.20041021

9 posted on 12/22/2004 3:08:30 PM PST by Eagle9
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To: Still Thinking

You don't have a firewall blocking it, do you?


10 posted on 12/22/2004 3:13:56 PM PST by general_re ("What's plausible to you is unimportant." - D'man)
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To: general_re

No. I have Zone Alarm, but it is not running at the moment (and there is no entry for Firefox, so it would ask, anyway).


11 posted on 12/22/2004 3:16:19 PM PST by Still Thinking (Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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To: Still Thinking

I'd pull up the task list and check anyway to see if you have vsmon.exe running - that's the ZA firewall service that sits in the background and does the actual firewalling. Other than that, I'm not sure what it might be. Have you tried removing and reinstalling it?


12 posted on 12/22/2004 3:22:32 PM PST by general_re ("What's plausible to you is unimportant." - D'man)
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To: BibChr
http://www.avantbrowser.com/

Thanks, but No Thanks! I'll stay with: Get Firefox!

13 posted on 12/22/2004 3:23:59 PM PST by ledzep75
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To: Keith in Iowa
"always use my"

I just tried that and as far as I can tell all it did was to make all links, including headlines for example, blue. When I hit "back" the original link is still blue. Thanks, though.

14 posted on 12/22/2004 3:26:02 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: facedown
You can add an extension called LinkVisitor 1.0.20041021

I forgot to mention that you cannot have your Firefox History setting at 0 days. You must have History set for a minimum of 1 day.

15 posted on 12/22/2004 3:29:21 PM PST by Eagle9
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To: BibChr

There's nothing in Avant that makes it better than FF, and it crashed too often for me.


16 posted on 12/22/2004 3:29:31 PM PST by 1L
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To: Eagle9
I forgot to mention that you cannot have your Firefox History setting at 0 days. You must have History set for a minimum of 1 day.

That appears to have fixed it! Thanks!

17 posted on 12/22/2004 3:35:11 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: KoRn; rdb3; ShadowAce; holymoly; soccer_linux_mozilla; mhking; Eagle9

Problem solved by Eagle9. I would never have thought of the history setting.


18 posted on 12/22/2004 3:38:58 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: 1L

Wrong, from my perspective. Buttons on bottom, movable; much more customizable; fast; works with everything (unlike FireFox).

When was the last time you used it? Are you sure y ou're not thinking of MyIE2?

Dan


19 posted on 12/22/2004 3:42:30 PM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: general_re

Vsmon isn't running, but the remove and reinstall seemed to fix it. I don't think I had tried that before. It must not have written something correctly on the original install, or something else wrote over it. Thanks a million!


20 posted on 12/22/2004 3:51:28 PM PST by Still Thinking (Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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