Firefox 3.0 out: Colour management now supported

Roen

Hi all,
not strictly photography related but the issue of colour management has cropped up here more than once in the past.
May be of use to some people.

Color management: (set gfx.color_management.enabled on in about:config and restart the browser to enable.) Firefox can now adjust images with embedded color profiles.

AnimalRights

What does the above mean in laymans terms...

Roen

If you upload to the web in another profile than sRGB the pic won't look cock.

Creamy Goodness

but if that's the case, what would an actual cock look like

good news though.

Roen

Cock, now colour managed.

Valentia

Holy cow Robin!! Didn't see that anywhere. Thanks Ronan.

OT but what's all that "stumble" stuff doing in there??

EDIT: never mind. It's because I have stumbleupon installed.....

Valentia

A more detailed explanation of how to set it up is here.

Roen

Valentia wrote:

A more detailed explanation of how to set it up is here.

Just uploaded a photo that I output in the Prophoto colourspace. Am testing how it appears in IE7 versus Firefox 3.0 after installing the colour profile.

The sky appears purple in IE7, but in FF it's nice and blue Looks like this colour management lark works. Horayyy!

Valentia

Yeah it definitely works!!

Here is a very good site with plenty of examples and explanations: http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html

P.S. Lovely luscious blue sky there Ronan!! Looks great here, must have a gawk in IE.

GristlyEnd

Excellent, getting lovely blue skies here. Well done FF3.

Chochese

Must give this a go soon so!

Sick of my photos looking nice and Lightroom fresh in Safari, then looking like a bag o' **** in Firefox!

Good heads up Ronnie!

brav

Thanks for reminding me, works great

Dink

I can't bloody find where the link is to my colour profile... any ideas anyone? Only calibrated the screen once with a spyder 3 elite, where would it have saved the profile?

Roen

For Windows it's more than likely in C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\color
But it could also be in Program files\whatever software you used\profile.icc

GhostInTheRuins

Looks good here

AnimalRights

I appear to have got this too work too.....some of the colours on boards,ie have changed too, this box I'm typing in is snow white and next to it on the outside wide spaces it's a kind of light salmon colour?

My pictures on pix.ie seem far more saturated, I have a newish Samsung 226cw monitor so..........
Taking a few minutes to get used to it lol

Dundhoone

Great!

I have been using both firefox and safari, dont like safari much!

Thanks for the info Roen!

Roen

The only downside is that my site won't load in FF 3.0....bloody typical

CraggyIslander

Roen wrote: »

The only downside is that my site won't load in FF 3.0....bloody typical

not using standards then? :pac:

I'll have to wait another week to check this properly, my last graphics card fried during the week and am now using an ancient ATI rage card from the stoneages to tie me over........ everything's blurry!!!

Roen

I'm aware of that alright Bedlam. It's a move in the right direction nonetheless.

I'm kind of puzzled why it's off by default though.

Valentia

Roen wrote: »

The only downside is that my site won't load in FF 3.0....bloody typical

What a devious plug

Your site is working fine here.

Just wondering why would anyone want to upload to the web in anything other than sRGB? Unless they wanted someone else to download and print with a bigger gamut I suppose?

Roen

None of the flash based sites are loading for me on XP, OSX, Ubuntu, Solaris 10 JDE or any OS I use with FF 3.0.
I'm beginning to think it's me as no one else seems to be having the same problem.

Valentia

Works here under XP SP2 and at home under Vista SP1. Did you clear your cache?

Gyalist

Try the Flock 2.0 beta. Flock is basically Firefox but optimised for Flickr.

JMcL

Nice call, well spotted.

Gotta love the fact that despite the fact the photo's got a Flickr title of "Colour_Profile_Test_FF3_0", looks a bit odd on anything other than Firefox 3 (and I guess Safari), and your description saying it's a test of colourspace, you've still got Flickrites asking you to add it to their groups

kensutz

Worked like a charm

Valentia

JMcL wrote: »

Gotta love the fact that despite the fact the photo's got a Flickr title of "Colour_Profile_Test_FF3_0", looks a bit odd on anything other than Firefox 3 (and I guess Safari), and your description saying it's a test of colourspace, you've still got Flickrites asking you to add it to their groups