It could, but experimenting it seems any colour reduces the contrast between links and non-links significantly (it isn't very high to begin with). It doesn't help that we have to draw the highlights on top of the text.

current:

Blue actually has a quite high contrast - but could be confused with a normal selection.

So this is declined?

In T138914#2417564, @Elitre wrote:

So this is declined?

The consideration was accepted and done; the decision is to stay as we are.

I don't actually object to a different shade of green, or even purple/pink, if that helps.

In T138914#2417492, @Esanders wrote:

Blue actually has a quite high contrast - but could be confused with a normal selection.

I like this one. It's a totally different blue from selection highlight, I think? also, normal selection changes the color of the font.

Not really:

I guess that depends on browsers etc.

We don't override Firefox because it doesn't (yet) let use set the selection colour consistently:

How about the following: underline a link when marked.

Links can be partially highlighted so that would require modifying the view which would lead to many more problems.

Ok, I see the problem. Thanks anyway for taking the effort.