If you try to ask a property like color : getComputedStyle(element,"color") through javascript, for a know HTML element of your page the browser will lie and never tell you the real displayed color.
Chrome is following Mozilla's change on this point, which was designed to solve the longstanding CSS history leakage problem, where a page could use computed styles to slurp your browsing history: <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/31/plugging-the-css-history-leak/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/31/plugging-the-css...</a><p>Is it lying for <i>all</i> elements, though? It should only really be lying about the "visited" styling of links or sub-elements of links (it'll return the computed style as if they were unvisited).