Google chrome a:visited background image not working

Question

(before I start I should say yes, I have done all the stupidity checks, yes the link is in my history and has been visited etc)

I\'m using Chrome version 6.0.472.63,

Answer 1

Same problem here. Changing background-position in a CSS Sprite on a:visited is working for me in Firefox 3.6 but not in Chrome 6.

But probably soon it will stop working in Firefox too. (maybe for FF 4?)

It's a privacy problem, and you can read here a Mozilla article about it (March 2010) http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/03/privacy-related-changes-coming-to-css-vistited/ And the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777#c160

I think only possible solution is to use creatively the background-color instead of images.