I use mostly Firefox and Safari, but if there’s one thing about Firefox that drives me bananas it’s been their complete inability to support colour profiles. I’ve written about this before, and it plays out like an annual rant: 2006, 2007, 2008. (Internet Explorer stopped supporting the Mac OS long ago, so I can’t test it on my computer.)
Basically, colours can look completely washed out in Firefox and fine in other browsers simply because Firefox doesn’t know how to handle embedded colour profiles. Until version 3, however, which my friend Kevin (who works for Flickr in San Francisco) alerted me to, knowing how many years I’ve been griping about this, and sent me instructions to fix… which languished in my unattended inbox until this week.
In fact, he sent them to me June 23 — yikes, but I was still in Norway and barely on the computer — so I could’ve corrected this nagging problem long ago.
ANYWAY, if you’ve upgraded to Firefox 3 here are the instructions for making colours look like they’re SUPPOSED TO:
Ok, let the hair pulling stop now!
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/08/color-management-support-added-to-firefox-3/
Type into the address bar of FF3:
about:config
add this to the filter:
gfx.color_management.enabledDouble click so it reads ‘True’, restart and look at the difference.
Much improved!
Ahhhh, much better now…
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