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I have a bookmarklet that sets a strike-through style on visited links so I can tell them out in sites that don't display them in a different colour (such us Mozilla Support). This no longer works in Firefox 4. What are my alternatives?

I have a bookmarklet that sets a strike-through style on visited links so I can tell them out in sites that don't display them in a different colour (such us Mozilla Support). This no longer works in Firefox 4. What are my alternatives?

Modified by Álvaro González

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What is the code of that bookmarklet?

You can also do that with code in userContent.css

:visited { text-decoration : line-through !important; }

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The code is this:

javascript:(function(){var%20css=document.createElement('link');css.rel=%22stylesheet%22;css.href='data:text/css,'+escape(%22:visited{text-decoration:line-through%20!important;}%22);document.documentElement.childNodes[0].appendChild(css);})();

The problem is that Firefox 4 ignores text-decoration on purpose:

Privacy-related changes coming to CSS :visited

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I am having the exact same problem.