Firefox 3: Color profile support (oh the pretty, pretty colors)


	Firefox 3: Color profile support (oh the pretty, pretty colors)

Lexica

6-23-2008 2:54 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b6caab7d-eb87-48f9-a702-480ba7070cca/0E0D70B9-1380-486E-A529-7DB1E0E89FA1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/" href="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dria.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/">One thing that has always irritated me about looking at pictures on the web is that browsers don’t seem to display photographs properly.  And by “photographs” I really mean “colors”.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/">The good news is that Firefox 3 <I>does</I> include full support for color profiles.  The bad news is that color profile support will be turned off by default when Firefox 3 ships.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/">There are two ways to turn on color profile support in Firefox 3.  The easiest is to install the <A href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6891">Color Management</A> add-on (which will work with <A href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html">Firefox 3 Beta 5</A>).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/">The second way to turn on color profile support is through the about:config page, which is a special page where a huge number of different (and usually hidden) Firefox options can be tweaked.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dria.org/img/9D670021-3603-43C6-9BE9-63B7EC2BA815" alt="ColorProfileExample6a" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dria.org/img/E2409E3E-C1CF-4159-A646-89C86F07DC6A" alt="ColorProfileExample1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/">color profile support causes a roughly 10-15% performance hit in many of our performance tests.  If the images that you’re viewing are of a reasonable size, that’s probably negligible.  If they’re large, it could be noticeable</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/">there are currently some trade offs involved</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0E0D70B9-1380-486E-A529-7DB1E0E89FA1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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