User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 I change the visited link color but the color doesn't change. The form where you make the change shows that the change was registered. But when you look at links that were visited, they show in the original purple instead of the new color. This functionality should work. I want to make the visited link color so that visited links are more obvious to me. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Select Tools then Options menu 2.Select Fonts and Colors. 3.Click the visited links button and change the color. 4.Look at a page showing visited links. Actual Results: The visited links were purple. Expected Results: The visited links should be in the new color.

in fact the new prefs stylesheet just doesn't have any effect on any existing browser views. (works in new tabs though)

The problem here is that changing the prefs rebuilds the pref stylesheet, blows away all the cached style data, and reflows. It does NOT reresolve style. It needs to, since it rebuilt the sheet. We need to split up the prefs into those that are handled by the prefs stylesheet (which need just a call to PresShell::ReconstructStyleData()) and those that directly affect style computation (which need a call to nsPresContext::ClearStyleDataAndReflow). At the moment, we handle the latter correctly (eg minimal font size), but not the former. I suppose we could do both or something, but that's twice the work, making closing prefs even slower. I'd rather fix bug 168326 first (hence the dependency).

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008022204 Minefield/3.0b4pre

This got fixed by bug 386640.

Thanks. -> FIXED