testing Firefox color management
testing Firefox color management
- Subject: testing Firefox color management
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:58:51 -0400
Firefox 3 has color management support built in now, but it's off by
default. I'd liked to ask as many users as possible test this out,
because the X factor is how bad default display profiles are based on
EDID. Mac OS asks the display to reports its primaries and other
information, and builds an ICC profile on-the-fly. It's been this way
for years.
What I'd like to ask people to do, is to switch between their displays
canned profile in Displays>Color and compare their web viewing
experience with FireFox 3 with color management on and off. Consider
trying each for a day or two noting your initial response, allowing
yourself to get used to one condition, then switching to the new one.
I think it makes the most sense to first switch to the canned profile,
view with color management off for a day (try to grin and bear it
people!) and then switch to color management on with that same profile
for a day. If you want, then switch to your custom profile for a day.
I think most people testing color management in FF so far are using
custom profiles, not EDID based profiles, so I question if we might
have problems in store for the wider market which of course depends on
EDID profiles (at least on Mac OS).
To turn on color management in FireFox enter the following as though
it were a URL, but only type exactly the following:
about:config
In the filter line, enter the word color, and then fine near the
bottom gfx.color_management.enabled. The value column for this
preference is set by default to false. If you double-click on the word
false, it will change to true. Please don't change anything else in
here! Quit FF and restart.
Chris Murphy
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