Comment 4 for bug 549760

I don't think that orange color was the best option for hyperlinks. In web browsers, orange hyperlinks means a visited link, so the user might be tempted to think that the GNOME desktop is behaving like a browser, showing all hyperlinks as visited and confusing the user. Blue might be a better solution.

However, on the other hand, orange hyperlinks shows great in the navigation history list of the Firefox address bar (much better than before, when it used blue links).