Loading Profile...
Avatars, images and Firefox 3.5
I have just upgraded to Firefox 3.5 and I have noticed that Twitter avatars and most other images on the web seem a lot darker. Is there a integer I can change inside of about:config or am I screwed until the next update? (That might not even fix it.)
Here is an example...
The one on the left is what it originally looked like. The one on the right it what it looks like in 3.5. Other profile images around the entire web seem to look darker as well.
Thanks,
Stephen Hobson
Here is an example...
The one on the left is what it originally looked like. The one on the right it what it looks like in 3.5. Other profile images around the entire web seem to look darker as well.
Thanks,
Stephen Hobson
I’m Meh
1
person has this question
I have this question, too!
Tell me when someone answers.
The more people who ask this question, the more it gets noticed.
The more people who ask this question, the more it gets noticed.
-
Inappropriate?Try this:
1. put about:config into the address bar, enter, click through any warning
2. paste gfx.color_management.mode into the filter box
3. double-click that pref to edit the value to 0
4. restart Firefox and see the photos look normal again
A couple things are at play here.
The images have embedded profile color correction and Firefox and Safari are the only browsers that support the adjustments the images ask for.
Now, if the images were created in an application that embeds the ICC profile automatically based on the profile of the monitor used at the time of creation, and that monitor is badly configured, the images will only look normal on that monitor and every other monitor that views the images will see them wrongly.
On the other hand, if the same situation happens on a correctly configured monitor, then all the *badly* configured monitors will see the wrong colors in the image, but all properly configured monitors will see the correct colors. Unfortunately the threshold between bad and good configurations was miscalculated, and that is bug 497363, which will definitely be fixed in the next update of Firefox.
Also, there are multiple versions of color correction, and Firefox only supports version 2, not version 4 yet, that's bug 488800
1 person says
this answers the question
1 Comment Add a comment
This answers the question
-
Update: Due to a security vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 a rushed update to 3.5.1 is happening which will not include the fix for bug 497363. It will be in the 3.5.2 release though.
