Actually the problem is quite simple: Firefox is supposed to remember which urls have been visited. Deepending on the status (active, visited, not visited) urls can be styled accordingly. Having this distinction is important especially for community sites such as reddit, slashdot and other.
Most of the time Firefox remembers if a certain url has been visited or not. However, for some urls it does not. It looks like if this is the case for urls that are rather short and end with an short id / hash value. For example on reddit under http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/ there are plenty of urls to imgur.com that are not remembered as visited. For example: https://imgur.com/0L7vV I could not figure out a certain pattern that indicates if an url is remembered or not. Some imgur links are, but a lot of them are not. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/828391 Title: Some urls are not shown as already visited. Especially imgur urls with a rather short hash in the url. Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: For example this url is not remembered https://imgur.com/r/funny/wg9YY The problem exists also for other urls -- not only imgur ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: firefox 6.0~b5+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1~mfn1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Aug 18 00:15:41 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes FirefoxPackages: firefox 6.0~b5+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1~mfn1 flashplugin-installer N/A adobe-flashplugin N/A icedtea-plugin N/A InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/828391/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
