Firefox 3 and colour management

sunsworth · Post by **sunsworth** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:10 pm

The latest version of Firefox is now colour space aware - i.e. it'll correctly use an ICC profile embedded in an image.

By default it's switched off, but there are details here showing how to switch it on - either my using a plug in, or manually...

http://robgalbraith.com/bins/content_pa ... -9311-9478

John · Post by **John** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:59 pm

I've seen a couple of comments elsewhere that the colour management of Firefox 3 does not give good on-screen images.

Following on from what you say Steve I'm wondering if they realised that the default was "off."

sunsworth · Post by **sunsworth** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:35 am

John, maybe that's the case. It's a little strange that it's not switched on by default - or that there's no direct access to it from the options menu. Perhaps it's still "work in progress"? What ever the case it appears to work, which has to be a good thing.

Wonder how long it'll take Microsoft to offer the feature?

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:22 pm

sunsworth wrote:Wonder how long it'll take Microsoft to offer the feature?

Years. IE 8 is in the pipeline but since IE7 have been with us for quite a while I would not hold my breath. Has anyone tested Safari for image quality. It is the browser that is the most standards compliant of all the current browser versions. That includes Firefox 3!

sunsworth · Post by **sunsworth** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:32 pm

Mike, even though I use a MacBook I've never really used Safari, preferring Firefox. I must have a play sometime.

Safari for the PC seemed a bit buggy when it was originally released, don't know if that's improved since then.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:16 pm

Safari is my browser of choice even on the PC. The font rendering on the PC version is much more 'chunky' than the mac version for some reason. I never really got to the bottom of why!

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