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Stinky The Clown

(67,808 posts) Sun Nov 29, 2015, 06:55 PM Nov 2015

HELP!!! My visited links are hard to see

Used to be my visited links changed from blue to red. Easy to see. Now they are sort of violet blue and the unvisited links are blue violet. Not a lot of difference.

Here's a screen shot of what they look like.

The top one is visited, the bottom one is not.

I have been all over the Intertubes and on the phone with AppleCare. No luck. No one seems to know how to change the damned color. I even spoke with an AppleCare guy who was on the Accessibility team! Nada.

Back in the olden days, when Mozilla was THE browser, there was a way to select the colors for every browser element. Now no browser seems to have such a choice.

I have exactly the same visited/unvisited colors in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox.

Argh!!!!!

You will have my undying gratitude if you know how to fix this. I getting headaches from all the squinting!

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HELP!!! My visited links are hard to see (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Nov 2015 OP

That is how they have always shown up on my Safari. LiberalArkie Nov 2015 #1

I don't use Safari but SeaMonkey which is an intergrated browser with mail client by Mozilla TexasProgresive Nov 2015 #2

Thanks! That's the way things used to be with Mozilla products. Stinky The Clown Nov 2015 #3

Good deal TexasProgresive Nov 2015 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Nov 2015 #5

I bookmarked this thread in case my wife wants to change link colors. TexasProgresive Nov 2015 #7

Wow! That is EXACTLY what I needed. I got it to work in all my browsers, too. Stinky The Clown Nov 2015 #8

Including Chrome? He loved Big Brother Mar 2016 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Nov 2015 #6

LiberalArkie

(15,719 posts)

1. That is how they have always shown up on my Safari.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 07:05 PM

Nov 2015

Try to increase contrast in Accessibility.

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)

2. I don't use Safari but SeaMonkey which is an intergrated browser with mail client by Mozilla

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 07:50 PM

Nov 2015

This should work in Firefox. Click SeaMonkey next to the Apple for a drop down; click Preferences; click Appearance; click Colors; Box on the right side will have link colors. Click on one and get a color pallet.

I just tried an old Firefox I have. It's a little different. Click Firefox; click Preferences; click Content on the top bar; click colors; click Visited Link; choose color; uncheck box that allows sites to choose colors- this may be just for text.

If there is a way in Safari, it's beyond me to find it.