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What I am fairly sure at the moment, is that they no longer are. People are doing everything possible to NOT make them blue, which something makes them very hard to find

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Even more important would be the purple hyperlinks (or any other distinct style) for those links that you've already visited.

I've never liked that feature. You save a page to a PDF and it gets stuck in this permanent mix of blue and purple links.

I've never needed my browser to tell me what I have and haven't visited. Especially since I use different browsers on different devices, so it's never even accurate anyways.

true, however when we moved out to javascript, this rarely make sense (I mean in the percentage, but the content-related links should be restyled on :visited pseudo class)

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