hi

i have no experience in programming so apologies in advance:

when i visit google i want links to stand out as bright red if i have
already visited them (i think this used to happen in classic). i have
an imac g5 2ghz running os x 10.4.3 using safari 2.0.2.

i believe something called a style sheet can do this for me but i have
no idea how... please explain as if dealing with a child

thanks
charlie

This page explains it pretty well.
http://www.macworld.com/2005/02/secrets/febmac911/index.php

Since you only care about visited links, you just need to create a
text file that contains:

a:visited { color:  #FF0000 !important; }

To create a plain text document follow these instructions, but use
.css instead of .html for the last part of the filename.

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_save_html_files_from_textedit.html

thank you very much for your answer which i have followed but
unfortunately the color does not change to red until i have visited
the link twice.
its very strange - any idea what to do so the color of visited links
changes to red when i have visited the link only once ?
thanks
charlie

Hmmm...visited twice?  How are you verifying this?  Do you click a
link and then click back?  Maybe you want both the active and visiting
link.

Try doing the above again, but using the following text:

a:visited { color: #FF0000 !important; }
a:active { color: #FF0000 !important; }

this doesnt work either -the link briefly turns red but when i go back
to the google page its reverted to blue.  i still have to go back to
the link on googles page and click again - and for some reason the
liink turns mauve which is hard to distinguish from the blue of
unvisited links.
i want red so the visited links stand out cos i cant remember all the
links ive already visited.
hope you can still help

charlie

Unfortunately I don't own a mac so I can't test this and figure it out
for you.  Maybe someone else can.

thank you for your help anyway - it seems to work for links on other
websites but just not on googles - and its most important to me on
google that i can see which links of a search i have already visited.
maybe theres a mac user out there who can help?
charlie