firefox color management again
I just had a particularly frustrating evening trying to figure out why my photos where looking like crap after uploading them to flickr. After much time spent trying to fix the problem trying all sorts of different colour space settings it turned out to be a problem with firefox. It looked like smooth colour gradients had extreme amounts of jpg artifacting. Eventually (after exhausting every colour space, compression and resizing option) I tried viewing the images using a different browser to find that they were being displayed perfectly. So I disable the gfx.color_management.mode (see here for my previous post regarding firefox colour management) in about:config, restart firefox and all is displayed as normal (everything being sRGB). After re-enabling this option all images are still displaying perfectly again. I don’t know what it was that broke firefox’s colour management but all is well again.
Here is the image that really showed up the noise.
