Firefox add-ons

[R Kimber]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:47:45 +1100
Basil Chupin wrote:

> I am not quite sure what it is you are looking for and all I can do is 
> have another guess.
> 
> I assume that, say, you have a site in your bookmarks and you go to it; 
> and when you do you want THIS exact page as it now shows to be the one 
> you go to the next time you go back to that site. Am I close? :-)
> 
> If I am then why not simply SAVE that page (to directory where you 
> normally save your downloads); the next time you start Firefox use the 
> File>Open File option and you will get that same page - in its   
> "pristine" condition.
> 
> Still not there? :-)

Thanks, but I'm afraid not.  Your 'save' suggestion isn't practical (I have
thousands of files) and would only work if I didn't ever use the saved
page.  And I'd have to keep updating the copy each time I changed the
original.

Let me try to explain again. Many pages have css that sets up the page so
that the unvisited links are in a particular colour (let's say blue). The
css also tells the browser that when a link is visited by me it should
change the colour of the link (let's say to green).  After some intensive
browsing by me all the visited blue links will have changed to green.  What
I often need to do is to see what the page would look like to a
new user seeing the page, with unvisited links, for the first time.  Yet I
don't seem to be able to find a way of doing that in Firefox.  It always
seems to remember which links I've visited, even using the Close'n forget
add-on that's been suggested. I also tried clearing the cache.

What I'm looking for is a way of getting Firefox to re-parse the page as if
it was the first time I'd visited it.

I hope that's bit clearer.

- Richard.
-- 
Richard Kimber
Political Science Resources
http://www.PoliticsResources.net/