# Safari question - How do I change how long a visited link stays grey?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 6, 2008, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safari-question-how-do-i-change-how-long-a-visited-link-stays-grey/462322 "2008-09-06T11:27:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safari-question-how-do-i-change-how-long-a-visited-link-stays-grey/462322/1 "2008-09-06T11:27:00Z")

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I’m using Safari on a Mac. Visited links don’t stay grey for more than a few days.

How do I increase the time they stay grey?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safari-question-how-do-i-change-how-long-a-visited-link-stays-grey/462322/2 "2008-09-06T11:52:58Z")

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or is it a Board feature? I’ve noticed that a lot of the links I’ve visited in the past couple of days (or even in the past 24 hours) have gone back to being blue, not grey. Is this something to do with the upgrade?

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**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safari-question-how-do-i-change-how-long-a-visited-link-stays-grey/462322/3 "2008-09-06T12:15:49Z")

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[This](http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/46372-how-do-i-reset-clear-visited-links-safari.html) would seem to indicate its tied to your browsing history. You can change the length of time Safari remembers visited links in the preferences (under ‘Remove history items’)

on edit: Just saw your ATMB question about it. Safari is in fact a little weird about changing the color on links you’ve just clicked. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. Definitely not a board issue.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safari-question-how-do-i-change-how-long-a-visited-link-stays-grey/462322/4 "2008-09-06T12:33:36Z")

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removing the history items would make them all blue, right? I want them to stay grey longer.

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**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safari-question-how-do-i-change-how-long-a-visited-link-stays-grey/462322/5 "2008-09-06T12:36:56Z")

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Right - I’m saying make the length of time the history lasts _longer_. It can go up to a year.