Is Prefs > History > Visited, Clear supposed to clear the visited URLs history?
That’s just poor labelling. The duration of visited link marking is set from the ‘My link style’ button on the Fonts and colors preferences, the data used is what’s in disk cache plus the vlink4.dat file, which can be cleared with the ‘Clear history of visited links’ checkbox on the Delete private data dialog. The Prefs > History > Visited, Clear function empties global.dat, the history shown on the History panel of the Hotlist, the Window > Special > History, and used for autocompletion in the Address field. It can also be cleared with the ‘Clear history of visited pages’ checkbox on the Delete private data dialog. As it is, Opera is the only browser I know of that lets you disable plugins so easily, although a visual indicator of a suppressed plugin would be nice.
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