firefox 3 visited link color not showing

[rfjones]

> fedora 8 firefox 3.01
> I set the visited link color to red; all links still display black on
> white
> any ideas?

Probably bad authoring on the website that you've tried it with, but you
haven't given any examples.  Link colouring works as it should do with
Firefox 3.0.1 on Fedora 9, here.

this problem exists on the openoffice  forums,
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks,and others
TIA
rfjones