| How can I change the visited link color to red? | inapub | 10/20/09 11:52 PM | I know it is rare, but I am color blind and find it difficult to see the purplish standard color of visited links. To circumvent this problem, I always change the visited links color to red in other browsers; however, I cannot seem to do this with ch |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | segfault | 10/21/09 7:34 AM | inapub, i think an extension can do this for you. I'm looking into it. |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | segfault | 10/21/09 8:04 AM | OK, i made an extension that does this, and posted it to be installed. You can see the source of the extension on the page where i posted it. First, you need to install the latest dev version (Reference 1). Then visit my blog and install the exten |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | inapub | 10/21/09 9:38 AM | Thank you and I hope this works. |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | inapub | 10/21/09 10:32 AM | This works well. |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | lclemens | 9/17/10 1:52 PM | I went to http://blog.rubbersoft.com/ and installed RedVisitedLinks.crx , but no luck. I tried it with Chrome 7.0.517.8 dev and also 7.0.528.0 (59791). Any ideas? |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | smiley1958 | 10/12/10 12:47 PM | Can you give any links to how to do the extension or where? |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | NotAnIdiot | 9/1/11 9:58 AM | I have bad eyesight too, so overriding a web page's default color scheme is essential. All you need to do is find and edit the Style Sheet that Chrome uses. Unlike Firefox, Chrome doesn't give you a method for doing this easily (shame!) but it can |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | adamata | 9/17/11 11:23 AM | Thanks NotAnIdiot. Here's the path to the file on my Windows 7 computer: C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User StyleSheets\Custom.css Simply open the file with Notepad, and paste the following line of code: |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | palmspringsmassage | 9/23/11 12:37 PM | Layman's terms! "simply open the file with notopad (how do you do that) "paste the following line of code: A.visited (where do you paste this??) Sorry; |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | adamata | 9/23/11 2:01 PM | Hey palmspringsmassage, Here's how to open the file with notepad: If you've successfully located the file "Custom.css" file in the folder I specified in my previous post, just right-click on the file, and in the right-click pop-up menu hover over "O |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | emilian2005 | 10/24/11 11:31 PM | For Windows XP, ChromePlus, the path is: C:\Program Files\ChromePlus\ChromePlusUserData\Default\User StyleSheets That's the place of custom.css |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | rcrow490 | 11/10/11 7:40 AM | I found the custom.css file in Windows XP at: C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User StyleSheets |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | MaryHadda | 11/29/11 12:15 PM | Typical users know how to do this? Or want to? Why the wonky workaround? Seems arcane for a simple change to a popular product. |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | Thomas S | 12/7/11 4:12 PM | Editing the CSS file as indicated doesn't change anything here. I'm not colourblind but I still have great difficulty distinguishing the followed links from the unfollowed one on my new laptop. It wasn't a problem on the old CRT screen, but LCD scree |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | Kumar Vaduganathan | 1/18/12 6:29 AM | very good one...But for window'7 search file name with custom.css, then open custom.css in notepad, copy paste this. A:visited { color: red ! important } |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | PowerDrome | 1/27/12 5:44 AM | Worked GREAT here. I'm running winXP, followed this path: C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User StyleSheets Opened custom.css with notepad, paste "A:visited { color: red ! important } |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | j41 | 1/28/12 8:29 PM | Try this.. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jbmkekhehjedonbhoikhhkmlapalklgn |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | MaryHadda | 2/13/12 9:02 PM | Seems like a lot of work for something which is supposed to be simple for anyone to do. Seriously. I blame Google. But thanks for the suggestions. I hope nobody who isn't an expert doesn't mess up their settings. |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | finn1317 | 2/28/12 6:12 AM | For Mac users: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/User\ StyleSheets/Custom.css |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | pezhedz | 12/12/12 12:50 PM | Thanx finn1317, Worked great. Opened the file "Custom.css" in TextEdit. (mine was blank) Pasted |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | pezhedz | 12/12/12 12:51 PM | Thanx finn1317, Worked great. Opened the file "Custom.css" in TextEdit. (mine was blank) Pasted A:visited { color: red ! important } Saved and was good to go. Didn't even have to quit or restart Chrome. |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | Felix Davis | 12/13/12 12:34 AM | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/change-colors/jbmkekhehjedonbhoikhhkmlapalklgn |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | sevenOdouble | 1/21/13 1:38 AM | Hi, I tried the options explained in this thread and it didn't work for me. - Opened the file "Custom.css" in Notepad. (mine was blank) and pasted + saved: |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | Dan Kimbrough | 1/21/13 9:47 PM | WHY do you have to install/activate ROUTINE extensions that are just part of the browser with other browsers???!!!! Tabs don't work, read links don't change color, GOOGLE CHROME SUCKS! |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | VenusAndMars | 2/18/13 2:41 AM | |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | rusty.wilson | 2/23/13 10:45 AM | |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | Pancho444 | 3/10/13 6:17 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | Pancho444 | 3/10/13 6:36 PM | |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | Patrick Malone | 3/30/13 8:03 PM | |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | dirigibleplums | 4/27/13 10:48 AM | |
| Re: How can I change the visited link color to red? | Myxtyplx | 5/21/13 2:55 AM |