color management
I’ve been going back and forth about switching from Firefox to Safari because I was tired of not being able to see people’s photos on Flickr in the right color. Sanky first pointed this out to me last year and it didn’t bother me at first but it’s been aggravating me more and more lately.
Here’s what I’m talking about.
The picture below is the color that the photo should be. It appears correctly in Safari.
The picture below is what I’ve been seeing in Firefox.
Apparently, this is all determined by how browsers manage colors. You can read more here.
I’m really happy with Firefox and pretty attached to all of my different extensions and add-ons that I use. I really didn’t want to switch to Safari. I was about to switch and posted a comment on Twitter about it to further postpone it. BTH asked me about it and in trying to find a good website to explain the problem, I discovered that Firefox 3 has a fix!
From the “Web Browser Color Management Tutorial“:
“Color management in FireFox3 is off by default. TO ENABLE COLOR MANAGEMENT: type about:config into the address bar. To turn it on, change the value of gfx.color_management.enabled to true and restart the Firefox browser.”
This worked like a charm.
Now I can see all the right colors and stay with Firefox! If you use Firefox and surf through Flickr a lot, do yourself a favor and enable its color management!
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