Wrong colors in Firefox 3.5

[Hoejlund]

Normally I use Firefox as my favourite browser, but in the latest version 3.5 (or precise: 3.5.1) color correction is turned on by default. In some cases this is nice i.e. when viewing photographs, BUT in webdesign this is a disaster! I.e. many PNG’s are not rendered "correctly" or in the way they are suppose to. Often they appear darker than expected by the designer. Say you have a PNG image with a color which is meant to be the same as the body’s background color but when it is rendered the colors don’t look identical.

I have googled the problem and found several other forums which discuss this issue, but I thought it would be interesting to get the opinion from some CSS-tricks-guys.

Mozilla have described the feature themselves:
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/ICC_co … in_Firefox

Some technical explanation:
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/color-correction/

Others opinion:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1108 … ction-hack

[Hoejlund]

"ikthius" wrote:

this is an enhanced engine that is turned on automatically.

I turned something called gfx.color.management.mode from 2 to 0

that should fix your problem

Yeah I know. I’ve done that too. But even though it now looks normal in MY OWN browser it will still look odd to the user of the site who is not a tech freak.

[Hoejlund]

"ikthius" wrote:

"Hoejlund" wrote:

"ikthius" wrote:

this is an enhanced engine that is turned on automatically.

I turned something called gfx.color.management.mode from 2 to 0

that should fix your problem

Yeah I know. I’ve done that too. But even though it now looks normal in MY OWN browser it will still look odd to the user of the site who is not a tech freak.

that is correct but Mozilla know this is not working out the way they wanted, so in future releases (never far away) they are setting this off by default, and making the engine better.

I hope so

[Hoejlund]

I’ll try

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