{"id":12,"date":"2008-07-02T10:29:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T14:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/forum\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-09-20T00:22:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T04:22:36","slug":"enabling-firefox-3-color-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/forum\/2008\/07\/02\/enabling-firefox-3-color-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling Firefox 3 Color Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great features of <a title=\"Firefox 3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox 3<\/a> is that it now natively supports color management. However, for some reason by default it is disabled (well, it actually makes sense &#8211; see caveat below).<\/p>\n<p>To enable it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enter the url &#8220;<a title=\"about:config\" href=\"about:config\" target=\"_blank\">about:config<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>If prompted that you are risking Armageddon, say &#8220;Ok&#8221; anyway.<\/li>\n<li>Find the key &#8220;gfx.color_management.enabled&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Click on it until it changes to &#8220;<strong>true<\/strong>&#8221; (note the line should turn &#8220;<strong>bold<\/strong>&#8221; when enabled).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note this caveat from the <a title=\"MozillaZine Gfx.color management.enabled\" href=\"http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Gfx.color_management.enabled\" target=\"_blank\">mozillaZine entry<\/a> on the subject:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Without a properly calibrated monitor and a correct color profile, color management may actually make colors look worse.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those of us with calibrated monitors, it&#8217;s pretty handy though. The only problem is you&#8217;re definitely not going to see what uncalibrated users are going to see if you&#8217;re posting photos et al!<\/p>\n<p>As an additional note, you may want to investigate the variable &#8220;gfx.color_management.display_profile&#8221; as well. According to the <a title=\"mozillaZine Gfx.color management.display profile\" href=\"http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Gfx.color_management.display_profile\" target=\"_blank\">mozillaZine entry<\/a> by default the color profile used is the system default, or if not set sRGB. If you&#8217;re doing something funky (ie: not setting the system default) you may need to muck with this.<\/p>\n<p>You will need to restart Firefox after you make the change(s).<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s actually an easier tool (plugin) to work with here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addons\/policy\/0\/6891\/30686<\/p>\n<p>to change these settings without going into &#8220;about:config&#8221;. The only problem is because it&#8217;s beta, <a title=\"Mozilla.org\" href=\"http:\/\/mozilla.org\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla.org<\/a> requires you to register first. Also, it&#8217;s not totally intuative how you actually use it. Once installed (I&#8217;m going to assume you know how to install <a title=\"Firefox Add-ons\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox plugins<\/a>) you actually have to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Select &#8220;Tools \/ Add-ons&#8221;, which brings\u00a0 up &#8220;Add-ons&#8221; window listing all your Firefox plugins.<\/li>\n<li>Find the &#8220;Color Management&#8221; tool (should be on top since you just installed it).<\/li>\n<li>Select &#8220;Options&#8221;, which will bring up &#8220;Color Management Preferences&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Select (check) &#8220;Enabled&#8221; and if necessary, fill in &#8220;Set Color Profile&#8221;. Usually you don&#8217;t need to set the later since your default color profile should already be set when you ran your profiling\/calibration software.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I would also note that <strong>turning on color management has its minuses<\/strong>. Any image that doesn&#8217;t have a color profile embedded (which is most GIFs for instance) will be converted into your default monitor color space. That may create a ugly color shift you&#8217;re not expecting. For things with profiles embedded, you&#8217;ll see what the author intended, but otherwise, you may not!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great features of Firefox 3 is that it now natively supports color management. However, for some reason by default it is disabled (well, it actually makes sense &#8211; see caveat below). To enable it: Enter the url &#8220;about:config&#8220; If prompted that you are risking Armageddon, say &#8220;Ok&#8221; anyway. Find the key &#8220;gfx.color_management.enabled&#8221;. 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