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dfoulkes
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1. I'm still using the latest ESR version and will be working towards using my copy of the latest version of Quantum in the near future.. so, let's leave my ESR version alone please :-"

2. At some point an update to one or more extensions caused some issues and I believe that it was Stylish of which I've removed it and installed Stylus ... but before removing Stylish I backed up what styles I had and have installed them into Stylus. And just for info purposes the Stylish add-on was causing Firefox to 'always' run at more than 50% cpu....even with say... this boards main page...anyway

3. With that said I still have the following issue.
On this board (and only this board) I had something set up where when I came into
it 'all' previous read posts were displayed in a medium green and the
green coloring (board default) for all Mods was turned into a dark-green.
Now nothing changes when I click on a post and the green stays the same for Mods.

4. I believe that whatever I had in here used browsing history to keep track because I
could go back weeks and posts that I had previously read would still be 'my-green'
and checked my history retention and it goes back past July..so, history is there.

5. So, what I've checked...
I checked Stylus to see if anything there affected this site.
I reviewed the User-styles site where MozillaZine was a style.
I reviewed User-Chrome files in my profile.
I reviewed my MozillaZine profile to look for a setting that would do what it used
to do.

In all cases... nothing was found that would accomplish what I used to have.

So, looking for help with this ... ideas on what I had done for years and now lost....and BTW, I checked my oldest Profile backup (3 months old) and it still had the same issues.

Thanks smart-people :D[/b]
As you can see she's (The CAT) always alert and on the prowl for Meoware !!
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Post by therube »

I have this in my userContent.css:

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/*
*	/* Make visited links purple */
*	a:visited {color: #FF00FF !important;
*	background-color: #FFD700 !important;
*	background-image: none !important;}
*/
It looks to work, such that after I [center] click a link, the link displays, purple.
Looking at the code, not sure how it works?
I'm not a css'r, but I thought /* ... */ would have been REM's, but who knows?
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Post by LIMPET235 »

Hi DF,
I have this in Stylish named thusly..
/* Read_Unread Clicked Links */

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@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain(boards.mozillazine.org),domain(forums.mozillazine.org)

{
a[href]:visited {
color: #664488 !important;
font-weight: bold !important;
font-style: normal !important;
text-decoration: underline !important;
opacity: 0.9 !important; }
}
NB: The color: #664488...gives a nice, "light purple", "visited" text.
&...
To add more domains/sites, just add them as per...

domain(forums.mozillazine.org),domain(forums.informaction.com),
[Ancient Amateur Astronomer.]
Win-10-H/64 bit/500G SSD/16 Gig Ram/450Watt PSU/350WattUPS/Firefox-115.0.2/T-bird-115.3.2./SnagIt-v10.0.1/MWP-7.12.125.

(Always choose the "Custom" Install.)
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Post by Lnwdz »

I've been using Stylish 2.0.7 on this site. I just verified using Stylus:

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  a.topictitle:visited {
      color: green;
  }
  a.username-coloured {
      color: darkgreen !important;
  }
Select: Applies to the domain forums.mozillazine.org.

Sometimes the style is defeated by &sid= at the end of the URL.
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Post by dfoulkes »

Thanks ALL for your help... finally got it to work though my skills in using Stylus needs honing a bit... I tried all suggestions and ended up using LIMPET235's code...but they all worked in some fashion. I use Green for color as it seems to be easier on the old eyes.

Thanks again ALL. Now I need to get back to working out my use of Quantum... if it suits my desires.
As you can see she's (The CAT) always alert and on the prowl for Meoware !!
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Post by LIMPET235 »

Glad to help out df.
Here's what I used to select the colour...
> http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html
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