using FF beta 4.01. Never had problem before. It started today. Went to options, Content, Colors. Verified all set properly. Still no different color for just visited sites

Go to Tools on your menu bar then options. Where you see Firefox will ...., click on drop down box and click on remember history, then click OK. Waalaa! your websites will be highlighted in pink. Good luck. lynne

Thanks Lynne

History not being saved was the solution to chrisjh's problem as solved by lynnebowes.

There are a couple of reasons why one might not be able to distinguish between visited and unvisited links on a web page.

1. History is not being preserved. (already covered)
2. Bad web site design.

History must be preserved

In Firefox Tools > Options > Privacy picture of " Using and Preserving History Settings"

Bad web site design and some solutions

There is another reason why one might not be able to distinguish between visited and unvisited sites and that is bad web page design, and one which Mozilla designing web pages should not be guilty of because they build web browsers but how many people can quickly identify between read(visited) and unread(unvisited) pages on Mozilla's pages including this one.

Web browsers started with some things already in place; links were underlined no one had color monitors and the links were visible when printed. I guess you can tell by the off-color where links probably are. But what is more important is to be able to be able to distinguish visited from unvisited links so you don't keep reading the same old article each time, or so that you can find an article you've read before in either case visited links are an important identification in webpages. It's also important to be able to identify what the links are. You wouldn't want to go to one site that uses completely different colors or reversed the normal colors for links-- that would be very confusing.

Some important tools for users are being to styling off, or to choose the colors. It is a it easier when you have a toolbar button to switch things rather going into Tools > Options > General > Advanced and mess with colors there.

Another way is use a theme or a style to change the appearance (css Zen Garden) of a specific website t0 something interesting but not necessarily for conveying information quickly.

Some notes and a style to help make support.mozilla.com, google.com and some mozillazine.com pages more readable can be found at Red: Mark visited links as read on unruly domains - userstyles.org

Thanks for that - all interesting stuff.

CH