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.

Answer 2

It's probably a security issue.
Check this post on the mozilla security blog.
I can certainly imagine how they would do it.

Answer 3

You might need your single quotes around your img url... Browsers are funny about when they do care about quotes and when they don't....

Answer 4

Chrome appears to have disabled css for :visited ( except for color ).

This would be to prevent the history sniffing exploit.

See http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/socialhistoryjs/

Answer 5

This is done for security reasons, as it was possible to load a lot of different images and detect which links the user had visited, any property sending an specific request, or loading a specific resource, depending on what the user has visited is technically seen as a security issue, as it can leak personal interests of the user.

https://blog.jeremiahgrossman.com/2006/08/i-know-where-youve-been.html