I came across a really frustrating problem a while back in Firefox. After getting into photography and posting photos to the web, I noticed that my images looked extremely desaturated when viewed with Firefox (or any other Mozilla browser, i.e. Camio). They looked rich and vibrant in Safari, but horrible in Mozilla.
After every profile setting and processing step I could find when editing my photos, I finally found an fix on the browser side. Here it is:
- In Firefox, type about:config into your address bar.
- Search for gfx.color_management.enabled
- Double click on gfx.color_management.enabled to change the value to “true”
- Restart your browser.
That should do it! If you pull up the same images after changing that value, they should look true to their original color. I have no idea why this isn’t a default setting. Come on, Mozilla!
-Grace and Peace
3 responses so far ↓
David // January 30, 2009 at 9:50 pm |
Hmmm…I did this in Firefox 3 and it turned everything green. What happened?
mike // February 1, 2009 at 3:52 pm |
Man, I wish I had an answer to that. It worked wonders for me. I got the R and the B in addition to the G.
julia gotz // February 12, 2009 at 11:53 pm |
Thank you so much for this very useful piece of information, and for making the instructions so clear. I posted a link to this page at the forum of my photoblog.
Can’t understand why this wouldn’t be the standard firefox stetting.