client that detects visited links?
reddit / irc

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lucid_horizon · 2022-07-09 10:31

When one visits a link in a Web browser, normally the link is added to
the browser history and the link will appear differently after that.
Typically unvisited links are blue, visited links purple.

I used to use ChatZilla and was comfortable with that client. As a
browser extension for Firefox, it would notice if I had visited a link
in Firefox, and render links in chat accordingly.

I seek a way to have that feature again.

One way would be to find another client that can do this, either
natively or with a plugin. I'm not sure how to phrase that for an
Internet search engine query, but I tried anyway and didn't find
anything. Does anyone know if this ability exists in any client that
does not actually run in a browser tab?

The other way I explored for a bit was trying to mod this
functionality into the standalone XULRunner version of ChatZilla. I
got part of the way there by hardlinking places.sqlite in the
ChatZilla profile's directory to places.sqlite in the Firefox
profile's directory. This meant that when I opened ChatZilla and
fetched messages from a BNC, visited links would appear purple.
However, new messages coming in live would have visited links rendered
incorrectly in blue, unless I had already visited that link in Firefox
before the *first* time someone posted that link in that ChatZilla
session. It seems like "visited" status for each new-that-session URL
might be cached by ChatZilla. However, I'm unsure how to
affect/workaround that behavior; besides that, plugin/scripting
documentation for ChatZilla apparently once existed online, but no
links I found work, *and* the IRC channel for ChatZilla seems to have
died with MozNet. I suppose I could email the XULRunner version's
maintainer, but I thought I'd try here first. Does anyone have that
documentation, or any other thoughts on working that angle?

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LameBMX · 2022-07-10 03:20

Maybe slide to irssi and python. Seems hexchat supports python also.