Firefox 3.5 color all messed up

I just updated my Firefox to 3.5 and now all the images look awful. In the previous version (3.1) the colour management was turned OFF by default. I had colour management turned ON, and everything looked fine.

But the new FF 3.5 has color management turned ON by default and everything looks dark and nasty.

Here's a comparison between how FF 3.5 & IE8 shows an image:


I can't believe how bad this looks.

You can however turn the colour management off as a temporary solution:

Go to address bar and type:

about:config

Type: gfx into the filter box

Click on gfx.color_management.mode

Change the 2 to 0

Restart Firefox 3.5 and the colour management is now turned off.


Hopefully the Firefox people will fix this before too many people are turned off from buying our shots here because they all look so terrible.

(Edited on 2009-07-15 09:51:56 by kelvinjay)

Maybe I'm missing the point but why would switching color management off be a good thing?

ETA: I'm wondering whether this is a Windows only issue because images in Firefox and Safari seem to look the same (still) on my Macbook.

(Edited on 2009-07-15 17:05:07 by bunhill)

I had to switch off the colour management as a temporary measure to stop it screwing up the images and making them look like the images on the left i.e far too dark. With it switched off, they look like the ones on the right, that is, basically looking right or normal.


The odd things is that this only seems to be noticeable on my desktop machine - my laptop didn't produce the darker images when I upgraded to FF3.5. Maybe it's dependent on the monitor profile used. I dunno, all I do know is that the previous version worked much better.

So I did some Googling. Apparently Firefox 3.5 does not recognize ICC V4 profiles.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/releasenotes/

Cool - thanks for that - I have no idea what it means, but sounds like it's going to ge fixed


 

One day.

Do I remember you saying you're running Vista 64? A quick Google (which you've probably already done yourself) says that Vista 64 uses v4 ICC profiles.


The answer is obviously to go back to Windows 3.11!

The interesting thing about a problem like this IMO is that we learn a bit more at each stage. This time yesterday I didn't know that ICC profiles could even be V2 or V4

That's an interesting use of the word interesting.


The thing is, at no time in the past 35 yrs have I felt that my life is lacking through my general ignorance of the technical aspects of ICC profiles V2 and V4. And now that I've been forced to learn of their existence, my life doesn't feel that much richer. Perhaps I'm just failing to see the beauty in their differences. If knowledge is power, then I think this measures about 1 milliwatt. But I'm very grateful for your help & advice.




(Edited on 2009-07-16 15:22:13 by kelvinjay)

3.5.1 is out but the issue isn't fixed according to the notes. It still says:

man i came back from vacation yesterday, updatet firefox and all looks so red hahahaa nasty.

This ICC v4 issue now seems to have been fixed in Fireifox 3.5.2


I just turned colour management back on and it all looks great and not dark & nasty.

(Edited on 2009-08-05 14:23:22 by kelvinjay)

I just updated to 3.5.2 the other day and the colors were all gray/redish looking. I applied your fix and they look normal now. Thank you. My world is again in balance.