When you click on any link, it changes color to indicate you have visited it.Is there a way to unmark it so it stills shows as an unvisited link? I thought old Netscape had a right click option to do this. I am running Firefox 52.
Dennis
You can clear your browser history, but that’ll clear all of them, not just on a case-by-case basis. I don’t think that Firefox has an option built-in to clear one URL at a time, but they’re probably all stored in some text file somewhere that you could edit.
Going forward, if you want to visit a link without it showing as visited, you can browse in Private Mode. You can either use control-shift-p to open up a new Private Mode window, or you can right-click a link to open it in private mode.
Press Ctrl+H to bring up the History sidebar. Find the page in the list of pages you’ve visited (either by browsing for it in the list, or using the “Search history” box). Right-click on it and select “Delete page”. Firefox will then consider that page to be unvisited, and will colour the links to it accordingly.
This seems to work with only one page at a time. (Control- or shift-clicking doesn’t let you select multiple pages.) If there’s a way to “unvisit” more than one page at once (apart from clearing your entire browsing history), I’m not aware of it. If this feature is important to you, you could instead use SeaMonkey, the official successor to the Netscape Communicator suite. Pressing Ctrl+H in SeaMonkey will give you a browsing history dialog that gives you much more fine-grained control.
There is a “Clear Recent History” function in Firefox that’ll erase the last hour, two hours, four, today, or everything from the history. Might speed things up. Open the menu, go to Library, History, and you’ll see Clear Recent History near the top.
The situation I was thinking of is here in the SDMB. I tend to open unread threads first as I go down the list each morning. Sometimes there are interesting threads that I want to be sure and keep up with. If they would show up as unread I would spot them right away. I’m pretty sure Netscape used to do this with a right click option but not Firefox. Not really worth opening up menus and selecting links, etc.
The Private Window is a good idea and I use that quite a bit anyway, just never thought of using it for the SDMB.
Dennis
Heh, for me it’s the reverse: I’m more likely to notice a thread that does show up as read, because that means I’ve already been in there, and possibly participated. The majority of threads that are unread are unread because I have no interest in them.