Color Management is TERRIBLE!
Once I upgraded to Firefox 4, it seems to ignore all my monitor color profiles. Everything has a reddish tint. Blue looks purple, and it just looks absolutely awful!
Is there a way to turn this apparently new color management system off? It looked fine in 3.6, and it looks fine in Chrome.
Example of difference of Firefox and Chrome, with Chrome on top.
I really don't want to leave Firefox but I'm a photographer and accurate color is VERY important to me.
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I have a Dell U2410 (wide gamut) monitor, and I can attest to this claim. In FF3.6 you just use the color management extension and load up a profile and it's fine. I have tried this in FF4 and it the colours remain muted and muddy red.
Compared to Opera 11:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/zymeth147/Opera11vsFF4Colour-1.jpg
I see this too, or something very similar. I use a wide gamut monitor (Dell U2410) in AdobeRGB mode (which is what my profile was created for).
I have a custom profile for this monitor which works very well with Photoshop, and even with MS own photo viewer. It also works well with my Mac and Mac's photo viewer ("Preview") (Mac and PC share the monitor). The profile is reported as being Version 2.2 by the Mac Color management settings utility. The same profile is used in Mac and Win 7.
It used to work well with Firefox 3.something, but with Firefox 4 it seems that sRGB colors do not get remapped to the sRGB portion of the monitor's color space. Instead I see oversaturated colors. The problem is the same both in windows and OSX.
I have enabled color management using the Color Management 0,5.3 plugin.
Perhaps it's just the plugin that's not working with FF4? Edit: I checked this using about:config, and gfx.color_management.mode is set to 1. I also experimented with explicitly specifying the color profile in FF4 (rather than relying on the system default), but it seemed to make no difference.
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MinishMan, I don't think Opera does color management. In your case I suspect FF4 actually does the correct thing. Compare the same image with Windows photo viewer, which usually does the correct thing (in Windows 7 at least), or with "Preview" if you are on a Mac. Do you have the correct color profile installed for your U2410, BTW? Note: Since FF4 seems to be broken regarding color management, installing the correct profile will only help if using a working color managed application such as the Windows 7 Photo Viewer.
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Did anyone ever get any resolution. I'm trying to run FF9 on Win7 and have this same issue. I've tried playing with the color_management variables in about:config to no avail.
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