Firefox 3 to be a Color-Managed Browser
Jun 11th, 2008 by Brad
Finally! cross-platform Web browser(Firefox) to support color management and use your custom display profile to display images. Safari has been doing this on the Mac, but now Windows users and of course all FireFox users can also have color-management. I’ve been a big supporter of Firefox and Thunderbird for years and promoting it for everyone.
Firefox 3 is now in public beta, to download a copy go to: http:/www.mozilla.com
To turn on color management under Firefox 3 enter the following where you put URLs: about:config
Next enter the following into the filter line: color_management
Change gfx.color_management.enabled to: true
Restart Firefox to enjoy color-managed web browsing!
How would you check to see if you have color-managed browsing? If you do, all of my photographs shown below will be exactly the same. If they are different they will be very different and it will show you that you do NOT have color management — as you can see the huge range of colors in my art demands it! (all photos created over hours of time with out digital manipulation).
if they look the same you sucessfully downloaded Firefox 3, changed the about:config settings above, and restarted your browser!
Color management now works for me in Firefox3, YEAH!
Nice writeup on Firefox3 features at:
http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/
More on color management at:
http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/
Turning on colour management in FF3 has most certainly improved colour vibrancy. Your test is great, all the photos now look the same. Even Gmail looks better! Thanks for the FF3 guide and your blogs helping me to enjoy this new feature. So far I really like FF3.
In the past you could always get best color but you had to be very careful which tool you used to save your images (sRGB, not AdobeRGB, not ProPhotoRGB, nor …). This is all much easier now.
I also really like all of the other new features in FFS!
Woah! What a difference! Thanks!