10.14.4 update Safari visited links no longer change purple

I investigated the problem and managed to fix it by deactivating the “Swap Processes on Cross-Site Navigation” option.

Please follow the following guide.

macOS

In Safari, select Preferences > Advanced > “Show Develop menu in menu bar”, then deselect Develop > Experimental Features > “Swap Processes on Cross-Site Navigation”.

iOS

Settings > Safari > Advanced > Experimental, then deselect Develop > Experimental Features > “Swap Processes on Cross-Site Navigation”.

Just adding on that I see this too. But it is intermittent. Sometimes I load the page and I see visited links in the proper purple (or CSS-defined) style. Other times they are treated as never visited.

Until I saw this post, I thought that this was an issue with the latest Safari release 12.1 that I installed last week. I have the same problem, since the update last week. I also thought that it might be related to the new feature, 'dark mode' support for websites that us their own CCS styles. I turned that off in the 'Develop' menu, cleared history & cache, closed down Safari, but no difference. What I do notice though, after doing the above, is that the very 1st time a link is selected on a webpage, it is highlighted as it used to be, but when selecting on another link on that same webpage, the 1st link and the newly selected link both show the problem, and anything after then. My instinct says that there has been some messing around (by Apple) with the handling of Safari CCS style sheets. This happens no matter what web-page I am on, and does not happen with other browsers.

Any thoughts anyone (Apple)?

I have Mojave 10.14.4 ever since the Safari Browser is screwed up, keeps freezing telling me the page is taking up too much information I see no updates to fix this others have complained isn't Apple going to address this and fix it!

On my computer, Safari has, by default, already selected "Show Develop menu in menu bar."

All I had to do was go to Safari's top menu, select Develop, Experimental Features, and uncheck "Swap Processes."

Thanks for the great tip, m_schalk!

I'm using Mojave 10.14.5 on an iMac. In preferences/Advanced "show develop menu in menu bar" has a checkbox that is checked. There is no "Experimental features" link or dropdown to click on to get to "swap processes on cross-site navigation".

Elizabeth Herzfeld wrote:

I'm using Mojave 10.14.5 on an iMac. In preferences/Advanced "show develop menu in menu bar" has a checkbox that is checked. There is no "Experimental features" link or dropdown to click on to get to "swap processes on cross-site navigation".

You need to close the settings window and click on the Develop menu item.

I don't have this issue on my Mac (I've updated to 10.14.4 (18E226))

Same problem here. It is only happening on Safari, not Chrome, and only began happening after I updated to 10.4.4.

Fantastic - thank you! (but no thanks to Apple Support)

Thanks for the help. Additionally I had to restart Safari on macOS to make it work.

Thank you so much, fantastic, Safari 12, High Sierra, Mario