browser colour management

just a heads up for those that use firefox3 and browse a lot of photos on t’interwebz. up until recently safari was the only browser that showed images in their true colour profile, like adobergb, srgb etc. with so many image editing programs defaulting to something other than srgb meant that their images may appear flat, lacking colour or contrast when viewed in other browsers. this appeared to be a linear squash to fit everything into the srgb profile.

now firefox 3 is out and about things have changed, it can now support images in different colour profiles which is a god send for those of us that browse places like flickr on a regular basis. all you have to do is go to about:config, search for gfx or color_management, double clicking the line will toggle the value from false to true and then restart firefox.

i have heard of people saying that this slows down firefox, upto 20%!?!? all i can say is i havent noticed any slow down, let alone a ridiculous statement of 20% slower :/ if your machine slows down this much then there is something else seriously wrong.

~ by tom on July 9, 2008.