Read topics become marked unread with FF 3

[Corben Dallas]

Read topics randomly become marked unread after a few days. If you click on a thread in a forum with a software like

http://www.pcx-forum.de/pxmboard.php?mode=board&brdid=1 or
http://www.maniac-forum.de/forum/pxmboard.php?mode=board&brdid=6&brdsid=ea99a7f3314f8818a901bfc6194c580b

the clicked thread changes its color. After 2-3 days any clicked thread becomes unmarked again along with the clicked answers. This only happens with FF 3. Version 2 works fine. The problem seems to be like Bug 417229

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&id=417229

but refreshing makes no difference here. The clicked threads and the clicked answers stay marked read for about two days. This happens with or without any AddOns. According to this thread http://www.maniac-forum.de/forum/pxmboard.php?mode=board&brdid=6&brdsid=ea99a7f3314f8818a901bfc6194c580b i'm not the only one with this problem.


Corben

[Slochy]

Confirmed. I've also noticed it using the release version of FF3 on boards using the german PXMBoard software. Quite annoying. Used to be working fine on FF2, though.

[Antiriad]

Same here.
It only happens with FF3,older Versions working fine.

[Maniac-Forum]

The same here, everything worked fine with FF2...

[Magelan]

Same problem here.
With Firefox 2 there were no problems...

[jiggiwiggi]

Same here, worked fine with FF2.

[Liyah]

Same here, worked fine with FF2.

[Slochy]

Bug filed.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444341

[makaiguy]

Sometimes site-specific problems can be fixed by removing your cookies for that site and clearing your cache (already-downloaded copies of the page files).

Menu path:
[In Windows]: Tools | Options , or
[In Mac]: Firefox | Preferences , or
[In *nix]: Edit | Preferences

Clear cookies:
Privacy | Show Cookies - remove cookies (from the problem site only)

Clear cache:
Advanced | Network | Clear Now

[stüber]

Bug confirmed. Everything worked fine with Firefox 2.

[Slochy]

Sometimes site-specific problems can be fixed by removing your cookies for that site and clearing your cache (already-downloaded copies of the page files).

Menu path:
[In Windows]: Tools | Options , or
[In Mac]: Firefox | Preferences , or
[In *nix]: Edit | Preferences

Clear cookies:
Privacy | Show Cookies - remove cookies (from the problem site only)

Clear cache:
Advanced | Network | Clear Now

Thanks for your input, Doug. Unfortunately, though, it doesn't help fixing this bug.

[Slochy]

Alright, it's been nearly a year but I really, really need to push this thread and I'm hoping to get a serious response from someone who could help us getting this one fixed.

The bug mentioned in the original post and in my filed bug report above never got fixed in FF 3.0. Unfortunately, using FF 3.5 now, it's still there and even worse. All visited links on the following forums using the PXMboard software become marked as unread each time you close/open FF 3.5.

http://www.maniac-forum.de/forum/pxmboa ... rd&brdid=1

http://www.pcx-forum.de/pxmboard.php?mode=board&brdid=1

The first link leads to one of the most if not THE most popular german videogame forums there are and many, many users switched to Opera/Chrome/whatever only because Firefox keeps on "forgetting" the visited links (which it didn't do in FF 1 and 2 btw).

I know, there are probably more important bugs to fix, especially for the english speaking community, but could this bug please, please, PLEASE be forwarded to someone who's part of the development team? I've reported this bug once and didn't get any reply whatsoever, so I'm most probably not going to file a bug report again only to being ignored all over again :-/

Thanks for your time reading this, there are dozens of users who'd absolutely LOVE to see this being fixed one day.

Tom

[dickvl]

That are entries from frames and do not show in the History, but are stored as hidden items.
Recently Visited : place:queryType=0&sort=4&maxResults=30
Recently Visited | includeHidden : place:queryType=0&sort=4&maxResults=30&includeHidden=1

Opening such links in a new tab (This Frame > Open Frame in New Tab) will make them show as visited.

See http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Places_query_URIs

[Slochy]

dick, first of all, thanks for your reply!

Unfortunately, though, I'm not too familiar with these tech related things regarding Firefox. I've tried creating a new bookmark with "place:queryType=0&sort=4&maxResults=30&includeHidden=1" but the forum links I open using this entry still show as not visited. I've also tried opening the frames in a new tab which also didn't change anything for me. They all appear as not visited once I close/open FF 3.5.

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly do I have to do in order to fix this? You don't happen to have an idiot proof step-by-step instruction for me here, do you?

Thanks for your help so far!

Tom

[dickvl]

The bookmark that I posted above will only make the entries visible. Firefox won't show hidden history items as visible. So you either have to open them in a new tab like I wrote above or use the SQLite Manager extension to remove the hidden attribute, but that is a lot more work.
The site that you mention use two frames, one for the upper frame and one for the lower frame and only the main url that shows in the location bar will be marked as visited and show in the history, but none of the entries that open in the upper and lower frame.