GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 596982
colours of links no longer update as soon as a page is loaded
Last modified: 2016-02-28 16:52:37 UTC
With the webkit bakend, the colour of a link would change to 'visited' as soon as a page in another window or tab loaded that link. This no longer happens with the webkit backend.
seems like visited status is only remembered within a single tab... (ie visit a bunch of links from one page, then load that page in a new tab, nothing shown as visited, but reload in the original tab, and all the visited links show properly)
Confirmed, this is a regression.
This is https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32789
Looks like this was fixed a long time ago.