Option to "Underline links" not always honoured - sometimes all links in a page are rendered with underlines
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	• bzimport
	May 9 2005, 10:58 PM

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Author: the.r3m0t

Description:
Eww, ugly. Make it work again! :P

It does seem to remember whether I ticked the box, but the links always stay
underlined.

Version: 1.6.x
Severity: minor
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC
URL: http://test.leuksman.com/index.php/Special:Preferences

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 8:26 PM

• bzimport set Reference to bz2127.

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the.r3m0t wrote:

Note: This does not affect 1.4.4 as seen on en:

I also just found this; also tooltips (was called "show hoverbox over wiki
links") have been fully abandoned.

the.r3m0t wrote:

Demoting priority and severity. Sorry I forgot.

(In reply to comment #0)

Eww, ugly. Make it work again! :P
It does seem to remember whether I ticked the box, but the links always stay
underlined.

I checked and found the following:

So it appears to be a Internet Explorer-specific problem !!

avarab wrote:

Changed to block bug 640 since it's an Internet Exploder issue.

the.r3m0t wrote:

Actually, I see this problem in Firefox as well.

the.r3m0t wrote:

No longer see problem in Firefox or Internet Explorer. Marking as FIXED.

wikimedia-bugzilla wrote:

This is still happening, at least with Firefox in 1.6.5. *Usually* the
preference for no underlines is respected, but not always.

robchur wrote:

A tentative guess...could this be related to incomplete CSS loads? Do a
hard-refresh in the browser and see if it's fixed.

robchur wrote:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6037 ***