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Links inside of a frame set to open in that frame or new tab do not update to a:visited. Opening in new window does.

Reported by shootath...@gmail.com, Oct 18 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/robohelp/2017/robohtml/index.html#t=book%2Frob_gettingstarted_gs%2FGetting_started-.htm

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open the link above. In the topic frame, click a link. If the link is set to open in a new tab or frame, as the link on the Getting Started topic (www.adobe.com/go/learn_robohelp_pro­duct_en) is, it will turn to a different color when you go back to the original tab. 
2. Browse to another topic with links in it, like http://help.adobe.com/en_US/robohelp/2017/robohtml/index.html#t=book%2Frob_gettingstarted_gs%2FWhats_new_in_RoboHelp_release_2017-ee5u.htm , the What's New in 2017 release topic. All of the links on that page are set to open in the same frame. Click a link, then reload the original topic, and you will see that the link did not change color, even though you visited it and the stylesheet for the site does have a:visited set to change to a different color. If you use the Right-click link>Inspect tool, you can actually click visited and watch it change colors, like it is supposed to, but it still doesn't work as expected/instructed. 
3. 

What is the expected behavior?
The link should change to the visited color even if the visit was within a frame. 

What went wrong?
Attached video of me inspecting the value. 

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 61.0.3163.100  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: 

I am a web help creator and am trying to pass a new skin through QA, this fails only in chrome. I will mark it as a known issue, but many, many companies use robohelp, and many companies will likely fail this issue. 

Thanks!
 
visited_in_frame_issue_chrome.mp4
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Components: -Blink Blink>Loader
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Thanks for stating the problem clearly and providing a great repro!

Components: -Blink>Loader UI>Browser>Navigation Blink>HTML>A

Comment 3 by kochi@chromium.org, Dec 27 2017

Status: Available (was: Untriaged)

Comment 4 by kochi@chromium.org, Dec 27 2017

Components: Blink>CSS
Also adding CSS as it should be reflected in style.
Labels: -Pri-2 Hotlist-Interop Pri-3
Problem does not occur in Edge, Firefox, Safari: links opened in a frame are displayed as visited.

Problem occurs in all Chrome builds I tested (Chrome 37 .. head): links opened in a frame are not displayed as visited.  Note that the links are displayed as visited if, before opening the links, I escape the frame using
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/robohelp/2017/robohtml/book/rob_gettingstarted_gs/Whats_new_in_RoboHelp_release_2017-ee5u.htm



I'm able to reproduce this bug in Chrome 64.x on Mac.

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