[Veltliner]

I just got shocked by seeing a design in Firefox 3. Much too red.

Well, Color management is OFF by default in Firefox 3. You need to turn it on.

In Safari it looks good.

[Veltliner]

Here's how to turn on color management in Firefox 3.

http://www.personal.psu.edu/drs18/bl...ent-in-fi.html

I'm going to research what Internet Explorer does with or to colors. It has the color management option, but I don't know if it is on or off by default.

Avoid Camino, Google Chrome and Opera and Firefox 1 and 2: none of them is color managed.

More info here:

http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_...profiles.html#

OmniWeb 5.1.3 has the option of color management, but you need to switch on color sync. Check web site above for info.

[andi*pandi]

the point is, are any of the random users out there going to turn on color management? No.

[Veltliner]

They should.

Firefox is unuseable without color management. Everything just looks horrible. This was the main reason why I actually never used it.

Safari looked so much better.

Now I know why: color management. The enabling is very easy to do, takes thirty seconds, and improves image quality from skin disease to healthy looking.

[andi*pandi]

Unfortunately, you can't tell users what to do. You can set your design to use futura, but they won't have it installed so you have to accommodate with a backup of arial. Some of them have their default font set to 24pt, some of them would never even know they CAN change their default font. Same with color management.

reading that article, I laughed. No way random users are going to do this:

1. Open Firefox 3.
2. In the address bar, enter about:config When you hit "enter," you'll be shown an idiot box warning you away. Click the button that says, "I'll be careful, honest!"
3. At the top of the page that loads is a text field labeled "Filter". In that field enter color_management (or you can scroll down to the correct line...)
4. You want the line gfx.color_management.enabled
5. Double click that line of text. "Default" becomes user set and "false" becomes true
6. Quit Firefox. When you re-launch, color management is enabled.