I am using Ubuntu 9.04. In Google Chrome (7.0.517.41 beta), Firefox (3.6.11) and Opera (10.63), links are not highlighting properly after clicking them. Either there is no difference, or they are so similar in colour as to be almost indistinguishable (dark blue and slightly darker blue).

Within each browser there are preference settings for the colors to use with links.

I suspect that your current settings use a color that is (1) not clearly different on your monitor, or (2) not clearly different to your eyes, or both. This is not a slam at your vision. I have a similar problem sporadically and needed to tinker to find useful settings.

The human eye can perceive roughly 2 million colors. At any point in time, only about 1500 colors have names.

Bonne chance,
~~~ 0;-Dan

To Pauljam20,
Quote"I am using Ubuntu 9.04. In Google Chrome (7.0.517.41 beta), Firefox (3.6.11) and Opera (10.63), links are not highlighting properly"Unquote. Are the hyperlinks opening on clicking? I am using Ubuntu 10.04(Lucid Lynx)LTS and the default browser is FF, but it's performance is not as good as in Windows!There is a LINUX-SPECIFIC VERSION OF FF--> SWIFTFOX! http://getswiftfox.com/, and by the way, Opera 10.64 has been released.Best wishes!
regards,
vyver.

I'd better make it clear that I far prefer to use Chrome. I only mentioned the other two browsers so that it was clear that it wasn't a problem with a particular browser.

What you say all makes good sense, however I haven't found a way to change text colours in Chrome, apart from choosing a different theme but that changes everything else as well. In Firefox I changed the clicked link colour to red to try and make it as obvious as possible, this was revealing, because I could see that the link flashed red then went back to the unclicked colour. I then tried a different theme in Chrome and I assume that it had a different clicked link colour because the same thing happened.

So I agree with you that I need to choose a colour to suit me/my monitor. The problems are that I can't work out how to do only that in Chrome and with both them it doesn't stick.

When the app choses its own colors, most default to a blue color for un-visited links and a purple color for visited links.

On Firefox, you must un-check the option that says, "Allow apps to use their own colors" or similar. When I do this, I see the color for visited links but lose most of the page author's styling. I don't know anything about other browsers.

I probably should have tried a few different websites before posting this, I've realised that it is only the recently redesigned BBC News website, they've chosen some really bad colours! I can't switch off the option that allows the website to choose their own fonts etc as several of them won't work properly then, I'll just have to hope they sort it out...