Google got rid of visited link colors - oh oh

[AlienDev]

Usually I have visited links the same color as unvisited links on my sites. But for black text on white background sites like google the links usually do change color.

So when I went onto google today I was thinking "wait i opened those links in tabs, why arent they purple? :S". After checking I hadnt messed up any cache settings I realised google had got rid of chaning link colors.

There have been discussions about unvisited link colors before, but since google is such a huge site with millions of visits a day I thought this was quite big news...

Will this affect other designers? Do you think the change was correct? (I dont)

[Mittineague]

The visited links change color for me. It isn't your cache settings you need to check. Take a look at your history settings. Visited links changing color has been a standard convention for as long as I can remember (I don't remember it ever being otherwise). Having them not change would introduce a usability issue sure to confuse and annoy (some) users.

[AlienDev]

I just checked again and I'm sure its not just me being stupid. The links change color on other sites, but not on google.

When I use the firefox option to force sites to change color of links, only then does the google links change color.

[Mittineague]

And your Firefox
Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> History
Remember visited pages for the last [#] days.
is checked and has at least 1 day?

[AlienDev]

Yep its at 9 days.
Maybe its just me that sees the links not changing color.

[twistie]

Yer, the visited links still show up purple for me.